Re: 2.1b won't run winos/2 (os2gdi.exe not found?) help!

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From: Hans-Joachim Kirchhoff
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:23

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smithgr@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Gregory P. Smith) writes:

>I just installed OS/2 2.1b over my 2.0 GA installation and can't get it to
>run winos/2.  I did use selective install to reinstall dos/winos/2 files, but
>now it starts to load and flashes (very quickly) before exiting "os2gdi.exe"
>not found" or something like that.  I checked the drive and it's right, there
>isn't an os2gdi file..  How can I get it to work?  I'm using a 486/33 16megs,
>50meg HPFS partition for boot, SpeedSTAR 24x SVGA (running in 640x480x256 mode
>[not fun to get a decent svgadata.pmi file for it...]).  Any help would be
>appreciated.

>Greg
Thats easy. Simply rename your GDI.EXE in OS2/MDOS/WINOS2 to OS2GDI.EXE.
Just out of curiosity: do you have a real windoze (ms) installed as well??

-Hajo
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From: hmkirchh@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Hans-Joachim Kirchhoff)
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Subject: Re: 2.1b won't run winos/2 (os2gdi.exe not found?) help!
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:23:47 GMT
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