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- From: kitchin@lf.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Reformat needed to install 2.1 over 2.1 beta?
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 16:33:21 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
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- Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz (Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
- : In article <1993Jan5.024123.25620@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- : >
- : If you have a CD accessible from OS/2, then you probably can install it direct
- : from the CD.....though recovery in the event of a failed install would be a
- : pain in the butt.
- :
- I didn't find this so. They handled that rather well. The first thing you
- do (to install from CD ROM) is make two floppies that correspond to the first
- two floppies of a floppy install (they are not identical and there is a
- separate procedure for making these two floppies from making the first two
- of the 29 floppy set. Run the install command from the cd rom and it
- will have a section for this).
-
- As I mentioned elsewhere, I had to redo the install. Because I thought
- I was having a problem with the format (I wish they would give feed back
- when format is run from the install as they do when run from a command
- line prompt, i.e., % complete), I started over. I booted the first two
- floppies of GA and escaped to a command processor and ran format on my
- disk. The reason I though I had problems is that there are a number of
- bad sectors that format tests and takes some time getting over. This was
- evident with the feed back of the command line version. The install disk
- version (when run during install) just sits there and tells me it's
- formatting. Anyway I restarted the install on a clean disk. I booted
- the first two floppies and it found the CDROM and went from there.
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