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


I had this problem. When you did the selective install, did you get one of
those 'An error occurred while copying a file Y N A R I Do you want to retry ?'
messages. What seems to happen is that some of the .DLL's that Selective Install
wants to overwrite are 'locked' by OS/2. This is presumably because the DLL
is in use by Win-OS/2 2.0. Unfortunately, if an error occurs during the install
the system config is not updated (ie. Win-OS/2 2.1 will not be enabled). It 
says something about this in the on line help.

The thing to do is to note down the names of the files which don't get copied.
Boot from a floppy, and delete the .DLL's which could not be overwritten.
Now reboot and try Selective Install. Everything should proceed without errors,
and Win-OS/2 should work.

Hope this helps !

Paul.