Re: OS/2 Install blues

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From: Chris Priest
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 00:00

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David Lord wrote:
> 
> Just done a reinstall here onto a 4.3 GB disk and fdisk was very
> unhappy even with an updated ibm1s506.add. Further requirement was
> to ammend the line in config.sys on the installation disk to direct
> os2 into using lba by using parameters /V /A:0 /U:0 /LBA.

My FDISK etc. worked ok once I had updated the install disks with the
files from IBMDASD.EXE. IBM1S506 didn't need any parameters for this. 

Thanks for your input anyway,
-- 
chris@idol.d.c.u

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