Re: DR-DOS Installation Hell -- HELP, PLEASE

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From: GIL FREUND
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 21:02

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In article <1992Apr10.205155.2455@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, scls_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Scoles) writes...
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>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.
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>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).
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>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.
>

The DR-DOS diskettes have volume names. One likey explenation is that the
installation program uses them in order to recognize the diskettes. Since
you can't DISKCOPY between diffarent media sizes, you'll have to write the
volume names manually, using LABEL.

Gil

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Subject: Re: DR-DOS Installation Hell -- HELP, PLEASE
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From: gilf@vms.huji.ac.il (GIL FREUND)
Date: 12 Apr 1992 21:02 IDT
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