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- From: gt0040a@prism.gatech.EDU (Tom Sorensen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Must I have to reformat to install the new OS/2 2.1 beta
- Message-ID: <81886@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 15:58:53 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.231908.23815@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan21.175345.28327@midway.uchicago.edu> <81692@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1993Jan25.175940.10959@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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- In <1993Jan25.175940.10959@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
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- >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.
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- >Followup it is. WPSBackup seems to work pretty well. You can get it
- >as wpsbk7.zip, I believe, from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
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- I've got it but it really doesn't solve the problem- how can I format the
- partition, install 2.1b, and then restore my old desktop? Like I said, I'm not
- sure it would be a good idea to run WPSRestore *AFTER* installing the beta.
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- IBM needs to come with a way to do this- format your partition and still retain
- the desktop. So far reformating has been the most stable way to upgrade the
- system.
- Tom Sorensen
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- Tom Sorensen gt0040a@prism.gatech.edu
- "I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system,
- and possibly program, of all time." - Bill Gates, November, 1987
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