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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. Introduction ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- Using the Selective Installation Utility you can choose to install an entire
- package or only those features of a package that you deem necessary.
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- You can choose the target drive and directory where the selected features are
- to be installed and the program would create the directory if it does not
- exist. The program also checks whether there is enough space in the target
- drive to install the features you have selected and it creates the OS/2 desktop
- folders and icons for the programs installed automatically.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2. How to Start the Utility ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- 1. Open and OS/2 Window or OS/2 Full Screen session.
- 2. Insert the first diskette of your package in the drive.
- 3. Change the prompt to the drive where you have inserted the first
- installation diskette. For example if the installation disk is in drive A:
- change the command prompt to [A:\].
- 4. Type INSTALL and press Enter to start the Selective Installation Utility.
- 5. The main installation window appears.
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- See Also
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- Main Installation Window
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3. Main Installation Window ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- The main installation window displays information about the package that you
- are going to install.
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- The Available features: listbox displays a list of the different optional
- features in the package that you can choose to install.
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- The Features to be installed: listbox shows the list of the optional features
- that you have chosen to install.
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- The target drive and directory where the programs would be installed are
- displayed in the Target Directory text box.
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- The Information group box displays the available space in the target directory
- and the minimum space reuired to install the selected features. It also
- displays a one line description of the whole package.
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- See Also
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- How to Install
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4. How to Install ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- 1. Select the features that you want to install from the Available features:
- listbox and choose the Add>> button to transfer these to the Features to be
- installed: listbox. Alternatively you can double click on the feature name
- in the Available features: listbox to transfer them to the Features to be
- installed: listbox or choose All>> to transfer all.
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- 2. To remove a feature from the to be installed list, select it and choose
- <Remove or double click on it. To remove all the features from the to be
- installed list, choose <<All.
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- 3. When you transfer the features between the two listboxes you will notice
- that the value in the Disk space required text box changes accordingly. The
- Install button is enabled when you have selected one more features to be
- installed and the available disk space in the target drive chosen is more
- than the space required.
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- 4. Type in the target drive and directory where you want the files to be
- installed. A drive and directory would be displayed by default and you
- need to change this only if necessary. The full path name with drive letter
- followed by the colon and the directory name has to be specified.
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- 5. When you have chosen the features you want to install choose the Install
- button to begin installation.
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- 6. If you have specified the target drive and directory correctly, the
- installation utility would start copying the necessary files and the
- installation status window would appear.
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- See Also
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- Instalation Status Window
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5. Installation Status Window ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- The Installation Status Window displays an indicator that shows the percentage
- of the whole operation completed. At the top of the indicator the name of the
- file being currently copied is also displayed.
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- You can choose to the either pause the copying process or cancel it altogether.
- If you pause the process, you can continue again if you want to.
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- Once the installation program has copied all the files to the target directory
- it would create the desktop Workplace objects for the programs installed.
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- After all the files have been copied and the folder and program icon have been
- created, the installation program might update the system configuration files
- like CONFIG.SYS. This depends on the installation package. If the package
- includes features that require the system configuration files to be updated,
- then you would be displayed with a message and the program would update the
- necessary files. Before the original system files are updated, they are copied
- to a backup file and you would get an appropriate message.