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- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!wsu-cs!vela!vela!dlcogswe
- From: dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan Cogswell)
- Subject: Re: CD Beta Installation
- Message-ID: <dlcogswe.720977742@vela>
- Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
- References: <5NOV199209232343@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 15:35:42 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- smbrush@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Andy Brush @Sverdrup) writes:
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- >Please Help!
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- >I tried to install the OS/2 2.X beta from CD-ROM last night, with no luck.
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- >On the second disk, "Disk One", after a lengthy wait looking at the
- >"Loading, Please Wait" message, the system got stuck in what seemed to be a
- >loop: The Diskette would be accessed, the CD activity light would blink
- >for a second or two, the message "CD-ROM not found, installation aborted"
- >would flash on my screen, and the process would repeat. I let this
- >continue for 20 or 30 cycles before resetting the system.
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- >I have a Gateway 386/25, Micronics, Phoenix BIOS, IDE drives, 8 Mb RAM on
- >motherboard... a plain vanilla system with no wierd adapters or features.
- >The CD-ROM is the IBM discount package from CD Technology, which is a
- >Toshiba drive and a FD-850-MEX SCSI adapter. CD access works perfectly
- >under the GA OS, which is presently installed.
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- >I used the installation program to set up the CONFIG.SYS in the boot
- >diskette with FD8XX.ADD, and tried both the CDROM.SYS driver and the
- >CDROM_G.SYS driver, with the same results. I tried using SCSI address 0
- >and 2 with each combination of drivers.
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- >If anyone has installed the beta from CD-ROM, particularly using equipment
- >similar to mine, I'd appreciate a note describing how you did it. Thanks
- >in advance.
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- >Andrew S. Brush | SMBRUSH@LIMS01.lerc.nasa.gov
- >Sverdrup Technology | 2001 Aerospace Parkway
- >NASA LeRC Group | Brook Park, OH 44142
- >"Opinions are Mine, Only" | (216) 826-6770
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- This should go into the FAQ. (Oh, Mr. Sipples??) Let me repeat myself:
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- The BETA release of FD8XX.ADD seems to have a bug that won't allow
- access to CD-ROM drives. You must replace it with FD8XX.ADD from GA
- release to get things to work (at least that's one solution).
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- --
- Dan Cogswell Or as we say in Michigan: "Dee-troit"
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