On 09/01/2005 at 12:09 PM, inkleput{at}isp.com wrote:
>"Phil Parker" said:

>>>I guess I'm not making the point very well.  I already did that (altho I
>>>didn't say I had cleaned up the INIs) and the 0.56 installer
declares the GI
>>>is still there

>>Further follow-up:

>>You deleted appl "cwinst" and all three keys from os2.ini?

>You were right, I found ADC_53 stuff on even my maintenance partition.

Huh. I looked over mine, and all the ADC is where I put it: NOT on the boot
drive. I have no idea what happened in your case.

>I've renamed files everywhere

I know renaming is supposed to work, but in extreme cases (and I've had a
couple) it didn't for me.

*Delete* all files, directories, etc., 
*delete* cwinst from os2.ini, 
and *reboot*.
*Then* try again.

In those extreme cases I've had, that was the only way. To get PMview 3.0 to
install, I had to completely remove 2.xx (whatever it was) and remove the
Appl. and Keys from os2.ini and reboot twice (I don't know why once wasn't
enough) before 3.0 would install. (Peter Nielsen helped me a LOT and it still
took 3 or 4 versions that he made to find the problem and a couple of weeks
before it worked.)

*IF* I had just used EPFI (the old IBM installer) to uninstall 2.xx *first*
none of that mess would have happened. But I'd never had to uninstall before
upgrading before, so I didn't even think of that until WAY too late. ("Live
and learn, or you won't live long!" Does 20-20 hindsight count?)

> and run two different reliable INI cleaners.

Which? Most I know of *won't* remove obsolete Appls and their Keys.

>I've gone over INIs line by line with 3 different INI programs.  I found and
>removed some very old junk, but nothing I could identify as related to ADC.

Look for Application "cwinst" in os2.ini: it should be there
since that's the
only piece I find. Under cwinst there are three Keys. Deleting cwinst with an
ini editor (such as initor or initools) should remove both the Application and
all its Keys. After that, GI should not be confused any more.

>The 0.56 installer still insists there is an old GI around.  On top of that
>0.56 says 0.56 is already installed, 

I can't find anything in os2.ini in re ADC (Nor in os2sys.ini.) I have no idea
where its getting this. Before you delete cwinst from os2.ini, look at the
Keys and see if the Value of one of them is a directory. If so, delete that
directory and all its contents.

>I Suspect I know why it won't install.  I flatly refuse to put anything like
>this on my boot drive.

I've never installed anything like that on my boot drive either. Boot is D and
ADC and CWinst (the latter is the generic installer) are both on E.

Note that ADC uses *two* directories: CDBurn and CDRx_y_z where x.y.z is the
version of CDRTools that went along with ADC. I never tried to change the
names but had no problem (either on Warp 3+ or eCS 1.2) placing them where I
wanted.

-- 
    Phil Parker
--------------------------------------------
URL http://www.math.wichita.edu/~pparker/
Random quote:
  Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very
  good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
  ---Dick Brandon




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