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- From: pdg@crosfield.co.uk (paul goffin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Can't install from B: !ha ha ha
- Message-ID: <15364@suns5.crosfield.co.uk>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 13:38:01 GMT
- Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.
- Lines: 34
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- Hi all.
-
- Do you remember all those complaints about not being able
- to install OS/2 from anything but the A: drive?
-
- And then IBM produced the instb utility.
-
- Well I've just seen over on one of the msdos groups
- a couple of DOS users who were complaining about not
- being able to install MSDOS 5.0 from drive B:.
-
- (For the same reason you can't istall OS/2 from B:, of
- course. They are both operating systems and so have to be
- booted to work!)
-
- The posters were moaning about how nasty old IBM (yes, IBM)
- must be trying to make them buy IBM hardware by only
- making DOS boot from the "wrong drive". I suppose they
- thought PS/2s were different.
-
- I bet those guys love Windows; after all, it can be installed
- from B: and dos'n't involve nasty old IBM.
-
- Oh boy, is NT going to be fun. All those hardware and user
- problems that OS/2 is blamed for are bound to be far worse
- with NT. (I don't mean to slur NT. NT will be bigger, so
- it's bound to confuse novices more!)
-
- Paul
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