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- From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS2 beta install problem
- Message-ID: <93026.125346ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 12:53:46 GMT
- References: <1993Jan23.141618.16770@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
- Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich
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- In article <1993Jan23.141618.16770@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>,
- alex@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Alexander Jung) says:
- >
- >Hi!
- >I down-loaded OS2 2.1 beta from two servers
- >(ftp.uni-erlangen.de and ftp.urz.uni-heidelberg.de)
- >and wrote the disk images via 'dd if=disk??.dsk of=/dev/fd0'
- >
- I got them from ftp.uni-stuttgart.de and made the disk with loaddskf
-
- >the disks look OK (they have a DOS file system and I
- >can read and write files to then, even chkdsk /f is happy...)
-
- Mine too.
-
- >but when I try to install it I wont get further than disk1.
- >I can boot from disk0, and at that deep blue IBM screen
- >I insert disk1 as I'm asked to. Then the black screen
- >with those four os2-logos appears and a
-
- You got further than me. When I insert disk1 there is access to the floppy
- then a pause then again access and then a beep "Insert disk1". I won't accept
- my disk1 which looks ok when I do a dir or a Norton Disk Test and is labeled
- DISK1.
-
- This was the shortest installation I ever saw.
-
- Michael Bode
-