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On 6 Jan 1997, George Wiley, School of Computer & Information Science, University of South Australia wrote:

Firstly - let it finish - if the wheels are still turning it is most
probably doing something in the background which could talk a while.

It would also help to tell us what your machine specs are.

Secondly, if you are having problems after the first install you may have
to do a format /mbr to clean up the partition table - NOTE don't do this
if you have anything else on that drive  you want to keep !!
At WHAT point does the CDROM drive get lost ???

Matt


> I have been having REAL problems installing Merlin on a machine with a 1.6Gig
> IDE drive plus a Soundblaster 16 PnP with Hex CD-ROM.
> 
> The problem fall into 2 groups:
> 
> Group 1:
> -------
> I get as far as the last part of the install (don't ask how I know this, I
> just do) where a whole lot of configuration is going on while those 3 or 4
> inane screens (advertising VT etc) are being repeatedly displayed and the
> status line shows what's happening while those 2 small black and white
> "wheels" are spinning.  At that point, the installation FREEZES but the
> display screens continuing cycling, the "wheels" in the status line keep
> spinning but no other information shows in the status line.  SO EVENTUALLY I
> CRT/ALT/DEL and when it reboots, it looks like everything is installed and
> functioning.  UNTIL I realize that none of the TCP/IP (modem) stuff has been
> installed - no drivers, documentation files NOTHING - not even a directory
> called TCPIP!
> 
> This EXACT same problem recurred several times - each time starting with a
> newly reformatted HPFS partition.
> 
> 
> Group 2
> -------
> After the umpteenth occurrence of the above scenario, the next attempt at
> install (and each of many thereafter) looses all knowledge of my CD-ROM drive
> at some point (different on each subsequent installation attempt) during the
> installation.
> 
> In desperation, I even tried placing the files OS2CDROM.DMD, IBM1S506.ADD and
> IBMCDIDE.FLT which work perfectly well in my Warp 3 installation onto
> installation Disks 1 & 2.  But this also didn't work - the installation
> program still refuses to "see" my CD-ROM drive.
> 
> 
> Any and ALL help is greatly appreciated!
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> George Wiley
> School of Computer & Information Science
> University of South Australia
> Adelaide, Australia
> 
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