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- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: "DOS from Drive A" fails with "Illegal Instruction" error.
- Message-ID: <7827@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: 11 Nov 1992 23:09:02 GMT
- References: <1dpubcINNh9u@myall.awadi.com.au>
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- In article <1dpubcINNh9u@myall.awadi.com.au> dhichens@awadi.com.au writes:
- > Has anybody come across the problem of "DOS from Drive A" failing with
- >an "Illegal Instruction" error? The problem occured both before and after
- >installing the service pack.
-
- (Please limit your lines to 80 columns. Thanks.)
-
- I was setting up my DAK CDROM this morning and ran across this problem, as
- well as various problems with reading from the floppy. What finally worked for
- me was to use VMDISK to build an image on my hard disk and boot from that (via
- the DOS_STARTUP_DRIVE setting).
-
- (I'll post my experience with the DAK CDROM in another message...please be
- patient.)
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- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
- We survived Jimmy Carter; we'll (probably) survive Bill Clinton.
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