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- From: soh3@quads.uchicago.edu (min-woong sohn)
- Subject: Re: Reformat needed to install 2.1 over 2.1 beta?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.043207.28908@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1993Jan2.221103.8199@wam.umd.edu> <1ia6thINN4i@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 04:32:07 GMT
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- In article <1ia6thINN4i@hpscit.sc.hp.com> kitchin@lf.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin) writes:
- >Yamanari (rsrodger@wam.umd.edu) wrote:
- >: In article <BAB.93Jan2144950@se39.wg2.waii.com> bab@se39.wg2.waii.com (Brian Button) writes:
- >: >Before I go ahead and order the 2.1 beta, I wanted to get this
- >: >question answered!
- >: >
- >: >Once 2.1 comes out, will we have to reformat our OS/2 partitions to
- >: >install it over the beta?
-
- No. You don't have to.
-
- >:
- >:
- >: If I may, as a general comment, suggest that is it *always*
- >: preferable to install fresh than to attempt to install over a
- >: previous version.
- >:
- >
- >I found it a real pain, but the recommended procedure from IBM appears to
- >continue to be to reformat when installing a beta version over anything
- >(including a previous beta) and when installing a released version over a
- >beta.
-
- I am not too sure, but this time I did not find any such warning written
- any where in the beta. In fact, in the README file, there is a bullet
- point saying: "If you installed OS/2 2.1 beta on a computer that had OS/2
- 2.0 preinstalled: ...." Judging from this, 2.1 beta do not seem to mind
- how you install it.
-
- I installed the beta on top of 2.0 GA + SPG, and found that
- the beta even went so far as to migrate my config.sys and preserved
- all the EA's. So when I boot up with 2.1 beta, I had exactly the same
- WPS as before.
-
- Min
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