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- Subject: Re: OS 2.1 Beta. What happened to me.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.023813.10680@actrix.gen.nz>
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:38:13 GMT
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
- References: <1993Jan5.154803.27494@news.uiowa.edu>
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
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- In article <1993Jan5.154803.27494@news.uiowa.edu> williams@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams) writes:
- > Hi. Here's what I started out with
- >
- > 2.0 GA + CSD + Win 3.1 Beta
- >
- > I made diskettes and installed from them (if anyone's interested in Rube
- > Goldberg setups, try this: I stuffed the CDROM in an Iris Indigo, copied
- > the disk info into a directory visible on NFS, and then used a PC with
- > PCNFS to make the disks).
- >
- > Problem 1) I can't run windows at all. seamless, full screen, doesn't matter.
- > All start going and then quit. If I start a full-screen DOS session and then
- > type win, it tells me that it can't execute OS2GDI.EXE.
- >
- > I believe that this is linked to having Win 3.1 Beta laying around. I'm
- > going to save off all my local stuff and re-install with HD reformat.
-
- You should re-formatted from the start.......:-)
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- Steve
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