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- From: jdowdal@wam.umd.edu (John Dowdal)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 beta
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.032016.28122@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 03:20:16 GMT
- References: <1993Jan11.220046.11071@wam.umd.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan11.220046.11071@wam.umd.edu> jdowdal@wam.umd.edu (John Dowdal) writes:
- >I got the OS/2 2.1 CD-ROM and created install floppies from the CD
- >using another computer. I have a Western Digital Piranha 200 meg HD
- >(don't know the model #) and a Fujitsu 500 meg FJ2624A. Both are IDE
- >hard drives. It appears that the beta barfs on the Fujitsu drive.
- >On the second disk (install disk 1), it accesses the hard disk,
- >and the light stays on forever (I really mean indefinite), and it
- >gives an error message stating that FDISK won't run. I removed
- >the Fujitsu by removing it from the CMOS setup, and it booted fine
-
- I already got two pieces of mail that solve this problem: download
- spb506.zip (dated 12-19-92) that contains a new ibm1506.add file.
- THis solves the problem, and the beta now recognizes "the big one"
-
- John
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