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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!weyrich!orville
- From: orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)
- Subject: Re: Difference between DOS upgrade and full version
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.061125.24251@weyrich.UUCP>
- Reply-To: orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)
- Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
- References: <1992Aug31.011021.15753@r-node.gts.org> <anderson.26.715264953@mayo.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 06:11:25 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <anderson.26.715264953@mayo.edu> anderson@mayo.edu (Alfred I. Anderson) writes:
- >I think that the DOS Upgrade requires that you install the OS/2 V2.0 upgrade
- >onto a hard disk that has either OS/2 V1.3 or IBM PC-DOS installed. I
- >believe that the installation of OS/2 V2.0 Upgrade will fail if one attempts
- >to install it on a virgin disk or a disk with MS-DOS.
- >
- >I had the same question and this is what I was told.... someone set us
- >straight if the above is in error!
-
- Half true. It depends on the version of MS-DOS that you use, and how creative
- the OEM was that packaged your version of MS-DOS.
-
- I installed OS/2 2.0 upgrade on top of MS-DOS 5.0 OEM'ed through BEC
- Computer with no problems. Others on the net report that other versions of
- MS-DOS will not work (Hewlet-Packard sticks in my mind, but don't quote me).
-
- Of course PC-DOS works properly, because any cuteness that exists in it
- IBM knows how to handle. If somebody else got cute, then IBM might not
- know about it.
-
- Of course others have posted the work-around for this silly marketing
- ploy that sometimes fails and gives legitimate users a headache. :-)
-
- orville
-
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