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- From: hmkirchh@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Hans-Joachim Kirchhoff)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: 2.1b won't run winos/2 (os2gdi.exe not found?) help!
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:23:47 GMT
- Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
- Message-ID: <1k6gf3EINNe1b@uni-erlangen.de>
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- Keywords: OS/2 2.1 beta winos/2
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- smithgr@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Gregory P. Smith) writes:
-
- >I just installed OS/2 2.1b over my 2.0 GA installation and can't get it to
- >run winos/2. I did use selective install to reinstall dos/winos/2 files, but
- >now it starts to load and flashes (very quickly) before exiting "os2gdi.exe"
- >not found" or something like that. I checked the drive and it's right, there
- >isn't an os2gdi file.. How can I get it to work? I'm using a 486/33 16megs,
- >50meg HPFS partition for boot, SpeedSTAR 24x SVGA (running in 640x480x256 mode
- >[not fun to get a decent svgadata.pmi file for it...]). Any help would be
- >appreciated.
-
- >Greg
- Thats easy. Simply rename your GDI.EXE in OS2/MDOS/WINOS2 to OS2GDI.EXE.
- Just out of curiosity: do you have a real windoze (ms) installed as well??
-
- -Hajo
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