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Re: OS2 beta install problem

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From: ASI509
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:53
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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
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From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
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Subject: Re: OS2 beta install problem
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Date: 26 Jan 93 12:53:46 GMT
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