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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Must I have to reformat to install the new OS/2 2.1 beta
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.175940.10959@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 17:59:40 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.231908.23815@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan21.175345.28327@midway.uchicago.edu> <81692@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <81692@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0040a@prism.gatech.EDU (Tom Sorensen) writes:
- >>>>Hi all, I just got the OS/2 2.1 Beta, I'm using OS/2 2.0 GA now,
- >>>>can I just put the 2.1 Beta over my 2.0 GA?
- >>>Highly recommended.
- >>...that you reformat. (Sorry for the confusion.)
- >I agree with you (that you should reformat). I installed the beta last week
- >and OS/2 crashes on me if I try to multitask two DOS apps. Win-OS/2 also just
- >crashes.
- >Question- I'll gladly format and reinstall, but how can I keep my GA+SP desktop?
- >I've got WPSBackup but is it safe to restore the 2.0 desktop (w/ INI files)
- >over the 2.1 one? I really don't want to deal with going through all the
- >customization again.
- >E-mail would be preferred, but a followup is OK.
-
- Followup it is. WPSBackup seems to work pretty well. You can get it
- as wpsbk7.zip, I believe, from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
-
- (I haven't used it myself, actually, but it does apparently work.)
-
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