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- From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: 2.1b won't run winos/2 (os2gdi.exe not fou
- Message-ID: <hatton.727868638@cgl.ucsf.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 09:43:58 GMT
- References: <smithgr.727766803@rintintin.Colorado.EDU> <1993Jan23.191423.26372@clark.dgim.doc.ca>
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- Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
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- young@mars.dgrc.doc.ca (Norm Young) writes:
- >In article 727766803@rintintin.Colorado.EDU, smithgr@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Gregory P. Smith) writes:
- >> I just installed OS/2 2.1b over my 2.0 GA installation and can't get it to
- >> run winos/2. I did use selective install to reinstall dos/winos/2 files, but
- >> now it starts to load and flashes (very quickly) before exiting "os2gdi.exe"
- >> not found" or something like that. I checked the drive and it's right, there
- >> isn't an os2gdi file.. How can I get it to work? I'm using a 486/33 16megs,
- >> 50meg HPFS partition for boot, SpeedSTAR 24x SVGA (running in 640x480x256 mode
- >> [not fun to get a decent svgadata.pmi file for it...]). Any help would be
- >> appreciated.
- >>
- >> Greg
-
- >I've experienced exactly the same problem.
-
- >I even went through the pain of doing the installation a second time thinking
- >that the os2gdi.exe may have just been corrupted or missed by the install.
-
- >No luck.
-
- >I'm running an ATI Graphics Ultra in 8514 mode.
-
- If no-one else has pointed this out yet, just re-name gdi.exe to
- os2gdi.exe. I believe this one is a known install glitch.
- --
- Tom Hatton
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