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Article #16210Re: Must I have to reformat to install the new OS/2 2.1 beta
From: Tom Sorensen
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:58
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:58
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In <1993Jan25.175940.10959@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
>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.
>Followup it is. WPSBackup seems to work pretty well. You can get it
>as wpsbk7.zip, I believe, from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
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.
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!destroyer!gatech!prism!gt0040a 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 Lines: 26