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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!wupost!uwm.edu!rutgers!njitgw.njit.edu!hertz.njit.edu!dic5340
  2. From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  4. Subject: Re: Difference between DOS upgrade and full version
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep2.140858.342@njitgw.njit.edu>
  6. Date: 2 Sep 92 14:08:58 GMT
  7. References: <92244.103632CCHEW@UCF1VM.BITNET> <1992Sep1.132432.28949@njitgw.njit.edu> <unruh.715387898@physics.ubc.ca>
  8. Sender: news@njit.edu
  9. Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
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  12.  
  13. In article <unruh.715387898@physics.ubc.ca> unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes:
  14. >dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
  15. >
  16. >>Note that your OS/2 "upgrade" install disks get marked once you make
  17. >>your first installation with them.  Afterwards, they're just like
  18. >>ordinary install disks.  You can install OS/2 onto an unformatted
  19. >>system with it after this.
  20. >
  21. >
  22. >Disk 1 does if it is not write protected ( mine was while disk 0 which
  23. >it does not write to was not)
  24.  
  25. Isn't that obvious?  The disk will not get marked if it's protected.
  26.  
  27. Anyway, I sorta figured they intended to write somthing, since all but
  28. one disk had the sliders removed.
  29.  
  30. My disks are still "upgrade-only" packages.  I backed up all 21 disks
  31. (!) and installed from them, so my IBM disks have never been written
  32. to. 
  33.  
  34.  
  35. -- 
  36.    |)  David Charlap           "TELEPHONE, n.  An Invention of the devil which
  37.   /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu   abrogates some of the advantages of making a
  38.  ((|,)                          disagreeable person keep his distance."
  39.   ~|~                              --- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
  40.