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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!cs.utexas.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: Service Pack Failure
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov5.090039.13705@njitgw.njit.edu>
  6. Date: 5 Nov 92 09:00:39 GMT
  7. References: <1992Nov3.204319.20546@pdn.paradyne.com> <1992Nov4.144932.9218@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
  8. Sender: news@njit.edu
  9. Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
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  12.  
  13. In article <1992Nov4.144932.9218@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> lutz@solace.psych.rochester.edu (Dave Lutz) writes:
  14. >  If I remember correctly, I think the original GA install checks your system
  15. >out, modifies the Installation disk and disk 1, then proceeds to install the
  16. >system.
  17.  
  18. It checks out your system, but all checkout data is written to your
  19. hard drive.  Not to the install floppy.  The only thing written to the
  20. install floppy is a file indicating that you have satisfied the
  21. upgrade conditions, so you can install onto blank hard drives later
  22. on.  This is not done for non-upgrade purchases.
  23. -- 
  24. David Charlap         |"there aren't 50,000 things for which it's worth writing
  25. dic5340@hertz.njit.edu| software; and the computer industry doesn't have enough
  26. ----------------------+ programmers to create that much good software.
  27. Therefore, most of it must be worthless" -- Boris Beizer "The Frozen Keyboard"
  28.