Some senseless babbling from Jan Deboer to Mike Ruskai
on 10-22-99  08:20 about Questions......

[snip]

 MR> The alternative is to download the fixpack in the form of
 MR> diskette images, create the diskettes, boot from the first one on
 MR> the OS/2 machine, and sit there swapping disks for a while.

 JD> That is what I preferred to do. If I used the (probably easier and
 JD> less problematic) remote install offered from the IBM site, then, if at
 JD> a later date I needed to re-install OS/2 for any reason, I would have
 JD> to return to the site for another remote fixpak install, and it is my
 JD> understanding that free access to fixpaks will end at year-end.
 JD> So, I thought it preferable to have the disk images, and do my own
 JD> fixpak install.

Software Choice is going to be pay-only.  But that's not where the fixpacks
come from.  I haven't seen anything indicating that fixpacks will be moved
there.

Nevertheless, you can always save what's downloaded, and even archive it
for later extraction, to install the fixpack again.

 JD> However, I have been thwarted, because, despite several attempts, disk
 JD> image xr_w032.4dk will not download from the site.
 
 MR> There is a way around that, but it'd require doing what you
 MR> probably don't know how to do, yet.

 JD> Try me   :)

Save the .RSU file from the page to install a fixpack, then grab the
csf*.zip file pointed to from the contents (it will have the server near
the top, then the path in a C-like block at the bottom).

Inside that archive will be a list of files needed for the fixpack.
Download those files, and you can then install the fixpack without swapping
floppies.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


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