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In article <1997Jan6.145939.25461@levels.unisa.edu.au>,
GEORGE.WILEY@levels.unisa.edu.au (George Wiley, School of Computer & Information Science, University of South Australia) wrote:
>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.

I have had the same problem, my Mitsumi 4x IDE CD-ROM disappears.  I
ended up installing Warp v3 + fixpak 17, then copied these files to the
Warp v4 installation diskettes.

ibm1s506.add
ibmidecd.flt
os2cdrom.dmd
os2dasd.dmd

These are the same files in ATAPI.ZIP, but Warp v3 + fp17 is newer.
One or two of them is one more than one of the Installation Diskettes,
so check them all.

However after installing Warp v4, I also ended up with no network,
tcp/ip or java installed.

The javaos2 directory was there, but no files.  This is easy to
correct, just download Netscape and install it, it comes with a newer
Java (v1.0.2) than Warp v4 anyway.

TCP/IP can be installed from the Warp v4 CDROM directly.  I forget the
directory (cid\?), but try a search for base?.zip files on the CDROM,
these are the tcp/ip archives.

Full Networking support I don't want installed anyway.

>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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