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as of 10-nov-94, os/2 ver 3 on floppies was again recalled due to install
problems,  If you have a cd-rom drive be patient, reserve your copy of 
os/2 on cd-rom and install from it.  Os/2 is just to big to bother with 
floppies, espec. if you have to reinstall a couple of times.

Robin Vowels 
(rav@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au) 
wrote: : 	katzer@esp68.nrl.navy.mil (D. Scott Katzer) writes:

: 	   I bought Warp v3 on floppies on Saturday (CD-ROMs were sold out) and
: 	tried to install it on this Micron 486/66 EISA/VLB system.  I've been
: 	unsuccessful.  I've been using OS/2 for Windows, Warp Beta 1 and Beta 2 on
: 	this system with no major problems (and no install problems of 
: 	consequence), but they were installed from the CD-ROM. I wouldn't think it matters.

: 	   Hardware:
: 	      Micron 486/66 EISA/VLB system
: 	      Phoenix BIOS
: 	      16 MB RAM - 1 SIMM
: 	      256 kB cache
: 	      Ultrastore 34F VLB SCSI-2 controller (PUN=7, LUN=0)
: 	      Diamond Stealth Pro (S3-928) VLB 1 MB video card
: 	      Teac siamese floppy drive
: 	      Chinon CDS-535 SCSI CD-ROM (PUN=6, LUN=0)
: 	      Conner 31370 1.3 GB hard disk (PUN=0, LUN=0)

: 	   I followed the instructions on p.336 of the "User's Guide to OS/2 Warp"
: 	manual for installing drivers for an unsupported SCSI controller.  I 
: 	deleted the IBM2*.* drivers (which are for MCA systems) from a copy of disk
: 	1 then copied ultra14.add (18992 bytes 06-16-93 9:30a, the latest I've
: 	found) to disk 1.  The config.sys on disk 1 was modified by adding
: 	basedev=ultra14.add and by REMming out the IBM2*.* lines.  (This has to be
: 	done because there's only 2 kB free on disk 1 and the ultra14.add driver won't fit otherwise.)

: 	   I tried using the simple install with 92 MB free on C: (a 120 MB 
: 	partition), and the advanced install on a freshly formatted 120 MB HPFS 
: 	partition D:.  Both failed the same way.

: 	   The installation goes fine as follows:
: 	       Installation disk 0
: 	       Modified Disk 1
: 	       Disk 2
: 	       Disk 3
: 	       Disk 4
: 	       Disk 5
: 	       Disk 6
: 	       Installation disk 0

: 	   The installer then asks for Disk 1.  I insert either the modified disk 1
: 	or the original disk 1 and it almost immediately fails with a red screen 
: 	saying a copy failed, look at the install.log, fix the problem and try
: 	again.  Here's the end of the install.log when trying to install on the D:
: 	HPFS drive:

: 	[...]
: 	D:\OS2\BOOK\PERFBK.INF
: 	D:\OS2\BOOK\APPLBK.INF
: 	D:\OS2\INSTALL\UNINSTAL.EXE
: 	D:\OS2\INSTALL\DATABASE.DAT
: 	System files are being copied to your fixed disk
: 	System file transfer is complete
: 	DISK 1
: 	SYS0002: The system cannot find the file specified.
: 	         Copy Error    An error occurred when System Installation tried to
: 	copy   a file.

: 	*** end install.log ***

: 	   The User's guide says that this copy error could be due to 3 things:

: 	   1.  The floppy is bad.
: 	   2.  Not enough free space is available.
: 	   3.  The hard disk contains errors.

: ---Forget this.  I had something similar.  You need to check the following:
: 1. Your A: drive is 3.5" 1.44Mb;
: 2. Delete absolutely EVERY file and directory associated with OS/2;
: 3. Delete or rename your AUTOEXEC.BAK and CONFIG.BAK files;
: 4. Re-install DOS (you could try repairing your AUTOEXEC.BAT & CONFIG.SYS
:    files and re-installing OS/2, but it's quicker to re-install DOS than to
:    find out if re-installing OS/2 might work);
: 5. Re-check point 3;
: 6. Re-install OS/2;
: 7. Edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT & CONFIG.SYS files for DOS.  Check that the
:    last lines are not corrupted.  If they are, identify & separate the
:    separate DOS statements by inserting a CR at the appropriate points.

: See my last week's posting in aus.computers.os2 for more details.

: 	I don't believe any of these errors apply.  The hard disk isn't full and 
: 	chkdsk finds nothing wrong.  The floppy is a new 3M HD disk and chkdsk says
: 	there's nothing wrong with it either.

: 	   The SYS0002 error message says that it is looking for a file and can't
: 	find it.  I'd guess that it's trying to copy the IBM2*.* files or it is
: 	trying to copy the ULTRA14.ADD file.

: 	   I've racked my brain, but there seems to be no obvious way to solve this
: 	problem.  I've tried copying the ULTRA14.ADD to the install partition, but 
: 	the install always fails the same way.  In addition, for some reason, the 
: 	install always starts over from the beginning after one of these failures -
: 	that is, there appears to be no way to fix the problem and continue the
: 	installation once the problem has been fixed.

: 	   Anyone have any idea what the problem is?  Can someone figure out 
: 	what list of files the installer reads during the install?  What else 
: 	can I check?  I'm stumped.  :-(  This is the first time I've ever been able
: 	to install OS/2 (2.0, 2.0+SP1, 2.1 March Beta, 2.1, 2.11, 2.1 for Windows,
: 	Beta 1, and Beta 2) on a system.  :-<  :-<  :-<

: 	   Please reply by E-mail (to my ESTD account) if possible because our news
: 	spool fills up very quickly.  I'll post a summary.  I'll call IBM first
: 	thing in the morning Monday....