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Re: HELP: Problems Installing MERLIN from CD-ROM Drive

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From: Greg Newton
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 00:00
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In article <1997Jan6.145939.25461@levels.unisa.edu.au>, 
GEORGE.WILEY@levels.unisa.edu.au says...
>
>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.
>

George, I had similar problems with this too.  I had to add the switch for IO 
port to SBCD2.ADD on diskette 1, and SET COPYFROMFLOPPY=YES 

i.e. 

BASEDEV=SBCD2.ADD /P:220


I also had to prevent hardware detection on the first two reboots.

Hope this helps.

Cheers
Greg Newton   |;^)

>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
[...]
>
>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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Subject: Re: HELP: Problems Installing MERLIN from CD-ROM Drive
Date: 1997/01/12
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