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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Uuuhg! This is a stable beta???? Help!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.230502.1327@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 23:05:02 GMT
- References: <1993Jan24.151450.34184@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- Lines: 36
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- In article <1993Jan24.151450.34184@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (BRIAN PAUL VAN LIEU) writes:
- > OK, I finally installed the 2.1 beta last night. Many of you felt it was
- > extremely stable. I remembe using the origional 2.01 beta and having few
- > if any problems wiht it.
- > I ran it fine for two hours last night. I altered the config.sys to create
- > a RAM drive, a larger swapfile, and load dos high.
- > Today (the next mourning), I have had 15 trap d and e errors in the past
- > hour. That's right. The main thing is simply trying to close the icon
- > editor, or another window that I never closed the last time my system
- > trapped.
- > It alll started with me trying to edit an icon (yes, I am a fool). Now I
- > can not get all of my application to close so I can re-boot honestly. I do
- > not have that line in my config.sys that prevents opened objects and such
- > from being re-opened upon the next boot.
- > This is really sad. I could take one re-boot a day, but now I am at the
- > point where I am afraid to open an object.
- > Has anyone experienced similar problems? I really don't want to go back to
- > 2.0 ;)
-
- Yes. DELDIR is broken -- DO NOT ENABLE DELDIR IN EITHER CONFIG.SYS OR
- AUTOEXEC.BAT.
-
- Also, here's a mini-FAQ on 2.1 beta bugs you should avoid:
-
- (1) The SuperVGA drivers do not work with 512K adapters;
- (2) The HP LaserJet III driver in Win-OS/2 is broken; use the HP LJ
- IIP driver instead.
- (3) Do not attempt to install the 2.1 beta over an existing OS/2
- installation -- reformat. (Yes, I know some of you have been able to
- get away with it, but you've been lucky.)
-
- --
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