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to: DAVID CALAFRANCESCO
from: LEE ARONER
date: 1997-10-28 11:10:00
subject: different strokes

DC> Take a moment and think... most of the people who have had problems with
  > FixPacks have either been installing lots of fixpacks or installed the 
fixpack
  > after they did a lot of customization to the system and loaded tons of 
drivers.
  > The better plan is to install the OS, install the most stable fixpack 
that will
  > do the job (for you that is FP26 or 29) and then start installing the PP 
Zip
  > drive, the other stuff and customize TCPIP etc. When a fixpack updates
  > something significant, it can lose the old configuration (TCPIP is famous 
for
  > this). It can also easily downlevel something that is newer from a 
different
  > pack or software package (NS2 is famous for updating system files 
silently and
  > should only be installed after FP26 or later). 
DC> Lastly, I get paid very good money to do nothing but support OS2 and 
uild
  > configurations (install OS, fixes, apps, customize and clone for 
individual
  > users). Take my advice or don't. 
   David, I've installed Warp 4 on a workstation, and am about to 
   install Warp Server 4 as the network server on machine 2, and 
   Warp Connect 3 on machine 3 to act as a comm server for the 
   network. So far, I haven't done ANY fixpacks at all...what do you 
   reccomend?
                                       LRA
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