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echo: locsysop
to: Paul Edwards
from: Rod Speed
date: 1996-12-17 06:53:36
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> 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.

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

Well, it could obviously be an intermittent fault,
but its also possible that the 4.0 install is a bit
fucked too and that you only see those errors then.
@EOT:

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