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- From: harris@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Michael Harris)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 Dead End (Help needed)
- Message-ID: <harris.715316418@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu>
- Keywords: hpfs, floppy, bugs
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- Organization: North Carolina State University
- References: <1992Sep1.011014.21146@crc.ricoh.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 03:00:18 GMT
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- wolff@crc.ricoh.com (Gregory J. Wolff) writes:
-
- > Attempting to boot from the OS2 installation disks seems to be going
- > well until an error appears, the file A:\COUNTRY.SYS FILE NOT FOUND
- > (or something close). I know that the file is there, and have
- > not had this problem before in booting from installation disks.
- > Also, I notice that the CONFIG.SYS file of disk #1 of the installation
- > disks has a IFS=HPFS... line in it.
-
- This sounds like your BIOS has been changed. Double-check your floppy
- drive settings. HPFS should have nothing to do with your floppies.
- And obviously you installed OS/2 before so it should work now. Have you
- changed any of your hardware?
-
-
- ______________________________________________________________________________
- Michael Harris - harris@catt.ncsu.edu or harris@carvm3.vnet.ibm.com
- System Administrator, Computer & Technologies Theme Program, NC State Univ.
- (My opinions are my own and do not represent those of NCSU or IBM Corporation)
-