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- From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 Beta is OUT!!!!!!!!!!! Wide Release!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.155536.536@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
- References: <725427584.0@ttlg.ttlg.UUCP> <1992Dec27.132647.1@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 15:55:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec27.132647.1@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu> cvetp036@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu writes:
- >In article <725427584.0@ttlg.ttlg.UUCP>, Eric.Chan@ttlg.UUCP (Eric Chan) writes:
- >> Where can I get a copy? Can you give me the name of the FTP site?
- ...
- >
- >It's on CD-ROM for $15 from 1 800 3IBMOS2.
- >
- >Now, my question is, can you install it WITHOUT a CD-ROM? As in copying
- >the files over to floppies first?
-
- It is my understanding, based on stuff I read in the README.NOW file on
- the Nov PDK CD, that if your CD player is on the short list of supported
- drives, then you *can* install directly from the CD. You still have to
- make, I think, two floppies, but after that you can just pull the stuff
- in from the CD. This should also work if your drive is listed as
- supported in the "os2cdrom.zip" file.
-
- I just ordered the thing. Some comments/questions:
- 1) How does this version compare/differ from the one on the PDK?
- 2) The person who took my order said that this beta had become
- available 12/21. Not that it matters much, but the net has been
- saying 12/28. Are we sure we are talking about the same thing?
- 3) I got the file "os2cdrom.txt" from hobbes. It seems to say
- that you can use any (well, say, Hitachi or Sony) CD drives
- with OS/2, simply by using DEBUG to patch the name of your
- drive into one of the driver files. Does this mean that I
- can use my non-SCSI Sony drive (CDU 7205) in this way?
- Notes about this file:
- a) Despite the similarity in name, this file has little
- to do with the "os2cdrom.zip" file.
- b) This file bills itself as "how to use non-Toshiba CD
- drives under OS/2".
-
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- - pynq@quads.uchicago.edu, who is still costing the net
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