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- From: umeister@leland.Stanford.EDU (Eushuk Hong)
- Subject: Re: UW2 Arrghhhh!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.204919.20168@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <1isflrINNp0u@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> <1993Jan12.135329.5138@Rapnet.Sanders.Lockheed.Com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 20:49:19 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan12.135329.5138@Rapnet.Sanders.Lockheed.Com> fbruno@ysw526 (F. Bruno) writes:
- >I think it may be entirely possible that he did get bad disks. When I bought
- >UW1, the install would not accept disk 4. I had to copy all the files to
- >a subdirectory in my HD and then install from there. All the files on disk 4
- >were OK, but the install wouldn't work.
- >Your not the only one with problems w/ Origins disk copy service.
- > -Frank
- >P.S. My floppy drives have never had a problem with any other disks.
- >
-
- My friend had a similar problem with his UW1. I discovered that if any
- of the disks have a volume label (which it didn't) or a volume serial
- number (which it did), the install program will crash.
-
- Eushuk
-
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