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- From: chris@hfglobe.intel.com (Chris Houghton)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 Beta is OUT!!!!!!!!!!! Wide Release!
- Message-ID: <BzzBz5.n27@hfglobe.intel.com>
- Organization: Intel Corporation
- References: <1992Dec27.132647.1@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu> <1992Dec27.234503.11468@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:16:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec27.234503.11468@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
- >cvetp036@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu writes:
- >// In article <725427584.0@ttlg.ttlg.UUCP>, Eric.Chan@ttlg.UUCP (Eric Chan) writes:
- >// 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?
- >I think you'll find that it will be the same story as the PDK - you'll run the
- >install package from the CD-Rom, which will prompt you to throw in a LOT of
- >diskettes, and from these you'll install the OS. Pity - I rather hoped that we'd
- >be able to install straight from the CD. Oh well...
-
- The PDK readme file included instructions for creating two boot diskettes
- and then installing the rest of the beta os from the CD. I expect the
- new beta to have the same option.
- Mind you it wasn't quite foolproof to install. You had to replace a
- file on the boot diskette and edit config.sys if you did not have a
- system that used a vanilla SCSI driver.
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