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echo: locsysop
to: Rod Speed
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1996-12-15 12:50:14
subject: OS/2 4.0

PE> WHAT AN INSTALL!!!  They asked me to reboot my system something
PE> like FOUR TIMES!!!  It must have taken an hour to do (and I had
PE> to stuff around with my CDROM which appeared to keep having
PE> errors which required me to keep on clicking "retry").

RS> Have you seen any evidence of any problem with the CDROM previously ?

I don't use it very often, and only had 1 CD that I used at all, which is
now a frisbee.  I always had trouble with that CD.

RS> If not, its either a dud CDROM itself or yet another OS/2 obscenity.

RS> Ideally the test would be to read the CDROM a few times thoroughly
RS> under 3.x to see if you still see errors in that situation, say an
RS> XCOPY to null. But unless you have an older version of OS/2 you can
RS> boot manager to, not really worth the trouble.

I started by doing an xcopy to nul: on 4.0, and had no reported problem.

BFN.  Paul.
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