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- From: kitchin@lf.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Must I have to reformat to install the new OS/2 2.1 beta
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 22:10:02 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
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- Doug Azzarito (azzarito@cse.fau.edu) wrote:
- : In article <81692@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0040a@prism.gatech.EDU (Tom Sorensen) writes:
- : >Question- I'll gladly format and reinstall, but how can I keep my GA+SP desktop?
- : >I've got WPSBackup but is it safe to restore the 2.0 desktop (w/ INI files)
- : >over the 2.1 one? I really don't want to deal with going through all the
- : >customization again.
- :
- : If you want to keep your existing setup, then don't re-format. IBM is
- : testing installation over 2.0. I have done it on several machines with good
- : results.
-
- You take your choice and pay your price. I did it on three machines and
- 3 of 3 worked very weird from odd things to total failure. No data
- loss however (it didn't lose anything I had had on my disk, some
- failures resulted in loss of what I was doing at the time). I also
- tried to do it with a reformat and restore using wpsbck procedures.
- Also real weird results. The problem there seemed to be that it was
- overwriting what 2.1 had installed for the desktop including all of the
- templates. My programs didn't seem to recognize Win 3.1 after I did
- the wpsrest.cmd. Oh well, as usual with betas, milage may vary.
-