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- From: clemens@faui8a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Clemens Beckstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Beta 2.1 in IBM-BBS
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 09:48:43 GMT
- Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
- Message-ID: <1ie9trEINNho2@uni-erlangen.de>
- References: <1993Jan1.011337.773@news.columbia.edu> <1993Jan1.233612.24408@midway.uchicago.edu> <1id0kjINNqgc@rave.larc.nasa.gov> <1993Jan6.034841.16292@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
-
- >In article <1id0kjINNqgc@rave.larc.nasa.gov> jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov () writes:
- >>>On the other hand, you can obtain it for $15 by calling 800-3-IBM-OS2.
- >>>On CD-ROM, granted. In the U.S., granted. Also, the license
- >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >>>accompanying this CD-ROM permits you to use the code for a limited
- >>>time, and it permits you to distribute up to 10 copies "within your
- >>>organization." You may interpret the word "organization" broadly, I
- >>>suppose.
- >>But what about us poor schmucks who have OS/2 2.0 running on our machines,
- >>want to (*very* willing to!!!) run OS/2 2.1 BETA on our systems, BUT DON'T
- >>HAVE A CD-ROM DRIVE ???????
-
- >If you have access to any CD-ROM drive (on any DOS or OS/2 machine)
- >you can "manufacture" the install diskettes yourself.
-
- also if you have access to a CD-ROM drive connected to a SUN workstation
- with a floppy disk drive (or even better a PC connected to such a SUN)
- you can mount the CD on the SUN using the parameters
- -r -t hsfs
- and read it with no problems to produce disk images...
- (this should work on most Unix work stations)
-
- - Clemens
-