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Re: Fixpack #9 not installing

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From: David Rivshin
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 00:00
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In article <40t3bg$g24@news1.mnsinc.com>, jhearn@mnsinc.com (Jack Hearn) wrote:
>:>  Sounds like you are running out of hard drive space when it's archiving.
>:>I hate to ask, but did you read the whole readme on the first CSD disk?
>:>It contains a bunch of vital info...
>I have the same problem.  I am down to 30 meg free space on the hard disk.  I 
>read the entire readme which says from 1 to 4 meg of free space is required. 
>Dont know what the problem could be.

I've had this same problem multiple times. The best fix I know is to delete the
LOGSTART.OS2 (I think that's the filename) from the \os2\install directory. If 
that doesn't work I've had success with one other method, but it is clumsier...

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From: ydr2936@rit.edu (David Rivshin)
Subject: Re: Fixpack #9 not installing
Date: 1995/08/20
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