Hello Andrew!

22 Oct 99 08:19, Andrew Grillet wrote to All:

 AG> I was running Warp Connect with fixpack 40, on a VESA bus 486
 AG> when my VGA card suffered hardware death.
 AG> I ahve more Vesa VGA cards than is good for a normal
 AG> human, so I simply swapped it out. Unfortunately, it was
 AG> a different brand. This meant attempting a switch back
 AG> to VGA. This failed - the scan rate was bizarre.
 AG> Obviously time for a re-install.
 AG> When I came to reinstall, it was disallowed - "the version
 AG> you are attempting to install is a lower revision than the
 AG> one installed".
 AG> The only solution was a total wipe of the OS partition.
 AG> (There may have been others, but I did not have the time
 AG> to look).

Same story happened here.

 AG> What is the official way to reinstall after applyting a fixpack
 AG> after you have deleted the archive/backup? Personally, I
 AG> would prefer to BUY (Hint, IBM: this means giving you my
 AG> hard earned cash) a manufactur-refreshed version.

One of the reason I'm slowly turning from OS/2 to Linux. Can't install my
current config on today's hardware without chasing bits and pieces all over
the net first. When this machine dies, that'll be the end of OS/2 for me.

But haven't we had this conversation a gazillion time before ? :-)

                             -= Francois =-
                      Francois(at)telematique(dot)org
                       http://www.telematique.org/ft

"The world's about to end."  -- Ford

--- GoldED 3.0.1
292/854