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- From: kitchin@lf.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: 2.1 beta: is it possible to install directly from the cd-rom?
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 18:00:24 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
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- Andy Poulsen (apoulsen@athena.mit.edu) wrote:
- : hi,
- :
- : from the postings i've seen on the 2.1 beta (since i arrived back from
- : vacation) it appears to me that it is not possible to install the 2.1
- : beta directly from the cd-rom i.e. you have to create floppies from the
- : cd-rom and then install. is this in fact the case? or am i mistaken
- : (hopefully) and it's possible to install directly?
- :
- It is quite possible, I've done it. And because of some mistakes I made,
- I had to do it twice more. You have to make two floppies (rather than
- the full 29). These are very similar to the first two of any OS/2
- install. You boot from one and insert the other when requested. After
- that, it does the rest from CDROM. I am assuming here that OS/2 can
- access the CD ROM on your system.
-
- If you don't have OS/2 access to the CDROM on your system now but your
- hardware is on the supported list AND you have access to it from a DOS
- boot (this system or any other), you can use DOS to make the two disks.
- It should be able to pick up from there.
-
- It is so much nicer. You go through the first two floppies and
- answer the first set of questions and when you get past the point of
- whether to format the hard drive or not, you can go away for a few
- minutes while it does the equivalent of the first five disks. You
- then have to come back to reboot the system for the second part. After you
- answer the questions there you can go away and do something for a while
- depending on the speed of your hardware. It needs some responses from
- you at the end to finish up.
-
- Actually, they could make a few improvements (there is ALWAYS some room
- for improvement). This is NOT meant as a criticism. It is just as we
- progress we can continue to learn how to progress. I'm not sure why a
- single disk would do the startup. It looks like you need just enough to
- read a boot program from the CDROM. The current technique appears to load
- a complete OS/2 into memory from floppies. A second thing that would be
- nice is for it to get all of your responses at the start. This would be
- a more major revamping of the installation process. It is also likely to
- be easier to do with a CDROM install than with a floppy install, so they
- would have the choice of making this enhancement versus having the same
- install procedures for both media.
-
- This, not withstanding, I like the CDROM install. I also had to make
- floppies and install on another system and the CDROM makes a big difference.
-