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- From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
- Subject: Re: Installing OS/2 Beta
- References: <1992Nov21.042643.17530@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <harris.722369398@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 22:10:14 GMT
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- harris@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Michael Harris) writes:
- >ddotan@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dolev Dotan) writes:
- >>I'm new to OS/2 and i want to install the os/2 Pre-Release.
- >>Before installing, i have a few questions:
-
- >>a. Do I have to format the hard-disk first?
-
- >You should reformat the PARTITION that you wish to install the beta. You
- >should also reformat the partition with the beta installed once you wish
- >to install a newer verion of OS/2 on top of it.
- *----
- Why should you reformat the OS/2 partition when upgrading from the beta
- version? I didn't read about any file system changes that would make a
- difference.
- --
- Mike Berger
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