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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Installing OS/2 2.1 with MiniSCSIplus and NEC CDR-37
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.171345.17596@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1993Jan22.211854.18259@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:13:45 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.211854.18259@news.columbia.edu> jel8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Jason E Levine) writes:
- >I would like to know how I should go about installing OS/2 2.1 beta with
- >a Trantor MiniSCSIplus and an NEC CDR-37 drive. I have DOS on the system
- >on which I would like to install OS/2, but no previous version of OS/2.
- >Is it possible to install FROM the CD-ROM drive? I keep getting the "drive
- >not recognized" error number, obviously because OS/2 is not loading any
- >drivers for it in advance. Can I place the drivers on one of the two
- >installation disks? Can I load them in advance some other way? Please,
- >any help will be appreciated. I would RATHER not have to install the
- >beta on disks first, if I can avoid it AT ALL.
-
- You'll need the Trantor drivers, but it does work fine. Just get
- ahold of the file trntradd.zip, available via anonymous ftp from
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu -- check file /pub/os2/00Index for location.
-
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