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Article #815DR-DOS Installation Hell -- HELP, PLEASE
From: Eric Scoles
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 20:51
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 20:51
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I've already posted to comp.misc, and comp.os.msdos.apps -- forgot about this group. Has anybody out there had a problem with the DR-DOS 6.0 installation routine being unable to complete the installation? The circumstances are unusual, in as much as the disks I'm installing off of are 3.5" 1.44M disks copied from the originals, which were the wrong media for my system (and yes, I did order the right size, whatever they say). However, unless they are employing copy protection, everything should be AOK with the copies, and I've even modified the Install.INI file to show the right disk type. The problem that occurs (well the major one -- there are others) is that when it comes time for the Install routine to copy the files to disk, it goes into this endless loop where it fails to recognize its own disk as "the startup disk", and keeps prompting you to put it in. If you try and lead installation down another path, you can get to a point where you get a message that the drive is not ready (which it is). This all sound to me like hidden *.INI information, but there are no other *.INIs on the disk that could do this -- I looked at them all. Any suggestions will be _warmly_ welcomed -- DRI siad they _might_ get back to me sometime within the "next few business days" (right, you know where you can stick your business days, buddy).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!news.UU.NET!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!galileo.cc.rochester.edu!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!scls_ss From: scls_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Scoles) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: DR-DOS Installation Hell -- HELP, PLEASE Summary: It doesnt work! Message-ID: <1992Apr10.205155.2455@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Date: 10 Apr 92 20:51:55 GMT Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York Lines: 26 Nntp-Posting-Host: uhura.cc.rochester.edu