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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Iomega Bernoulli Drives & OS/2?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov14.004654.2169@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 14 Nov 92 00:46:54 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.180208.8356@photon.com>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1992Nov12.180208.8356@photon.com> juanman@photon.com (Juan Castaneda) writes:
- >Has anyone had any experience(either good or bad) with the aforementioned?
- >I have been trying to install OS/2 on my AST 386/33 with an internal 20
- >MB Bernoulli and dual 44 MB Bernoulli's. I have the OS/2 drivers from Iomega,
- >but can't seem to get past Install Disk 1. Do I really need a fixed drive to
- >first install OS/2, then tranfer the OS to bernoulli's? Is there any solution
- >to this problem? Any insight or hints would be greatly appreciated.
-
- I think so. Part of OS/2's heritage is in mission critical systems,
- and the ability to remove the entire set of system files at any point
- in time isn't too appealing to OS/2. So OS/2 itself works best on
- nonremoveable media.
-
- That said, you might be able to hack together an installation
- procedure for the Iomegas. I'll try to outline it briefly.
- Presumably Iomega provides a new .ADD file. You would edit CONFIG.SYS
- on the first OS/2 diskette so that it points to this file, copy the
- file to the diskette, and install. Midway through the installation,
- when it asks you to reboot, you would have to recopy the file over to
- the hard disk (from an OS/2 floppy boot).
-
- Not recommended, however.
-
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