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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Possible to install OS/2-2.1 beta from second hard drive?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.223116.28899@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1993Jan21.194506.8500@cobber.cord.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:31:16 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.194506.8500@cobber.cord.edu> covey@cobber.cord.edu (Mark Covey) writes:
- >Greetings.
- >I've seen some discussion of installing the OS/2-2.1 beta directly from
- >its CDROM distribution media without making the 20+ disks. One has to
- >make the first 2 installation disks and then through some machinations
- >can get the rest of the dope from the CDROM.
- >I've ftp'd a copy of the beta and have downloaded the zipped files to my
- >second harddrive. My question is this: Can I install this downloaded
- >beta from my second harddrive to my first HD without making the 20+
- >installation disks? If so, how?
- >The drives in question are IDE's controlled by a single interface, BTW.
-
- No. Not using the diskette images files. (If you had the entire
- contents of the CD-ROM, you could.)
-
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