NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/comp/os/os2/misc/41390

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From: [e-mail] (Howard Gilbert)
Subject: Delete SVGADATA before Beta 2.1 install
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Date: Wed, 06 Jan 93 09:58:44 EST
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There seems to be an install problem with 2.1 beta if you put it
on top of an old system with SVGA ON.  I have a big disk, and
two copies of OS/2.  The beta went on flawlessly on a vanilla
PDK (Win31 old beta) system.  However, applying the same process
to my production system the install process failed at the end
when internally running DSPINSTL.  The problem is that the new
DSPINSTL runs "SVGA ON" in a DOS fullscreen session during the
install.  However, if the old system had an old format SVGADATA.PMI
file then the beta install cannot properly create the fullscreen
DOS session.  Ultimately, it pops up a message asking for the first
display driver diskette to be mounted on the F: (CD-ROM) drive.
Needless to say, the diskette does not fit in the CDROM drive, and
it would not take the installed CD volume as a response.

I cannot recreate the experiment, so I cannot verify that SVGADATA
is absolutely the problem, but since the failure occured about
the time that the install internally runs SVGA ON, I have
high confidence this is the problem.  I strongly recommend deleting
the old SVGADATA before install if you are not going to format the
partition.