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- From: maurit@nrtc.nrtc.northrop.com (Mark Aurit <maurit>)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: OddeSsy2: the installation from Hell
- Message-ID: <40762@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 15:08:15 GMT
- Sender: news@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com
- Reply-To: maurit@nrtc.nrtc.northrop.com (Mark Aurit <maurit>)
- Organization: Northrop Research & Technology Center, Palos Verdes, CA
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- System: PS2 mod 70, 8 meg RAM, Optima external SCSI.
-
- A while back I posted as to how I could not load 2.0; Id get
- past the install disk, but on disk 1 the system would hang.
- After going back and forth with OS2 support, they recommended
- that I deinstall the SCSI. I did, it loaded. Hurrah!
-
- So I talked to the tech rep at Optima, he said he was surprised,
- 2.0 was running on an AT (I know, I know) without any problems.
- More importantly, he said the board was just an Adaptec 1640, nothing
- fancy. IBM support said yeah, I should have no problems with that board.
-
- [Oh yeah, I got one of the OS2 betas up and running with no problems.
- You'll see where that fits in in a sec]
-
- So I reinstalled the Optima, and now the WorkPlace Shell wont come
- up. I called IBM, he sez the problem is in Extended Attributes or
- some such left over from the Beta copy. I mentioned how I had formatted
- the system after the copy (using the MS-DOS 5.0 format); he said it
- will take a low level format. OR I can remove the 5 OS2 system files
- (os2krnl, os2boot, os2ldr, wp root. sf and ea data. sf) and reinstall
- OS2.
-
- So hey, what's another hour. I didnt really know where to start with the
- low-level format. My reference disk had a file llformat.com, so I thought
- Id try it, a>llformat c:, the system hung (Oh yeah, there is nothing
- of any importance on the C: drive, all my apps and data are on the SCSI).
- So I thought Id remove the files, all the os2* files came off o.k.,
- but the wp* and ea* wont go, no matter how I trick the command line,
- and trying both popdos and the Windows File Manager - they tell me the
- attributes cannot be changed.
-
- Does anyone have any ideas if in the EA's might in fact be the problem,
- how to use llformat, how to change the attributes on files that
- refuse to let this happen, which team will win the AFC title? My
- tastes are catholic.
-
- Mark
- maurit@nad.northrop.com
- maurit@nrtc.northrop.com
- (310) 331-4069
-