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to: Jonathan de Boyne Pollar
from: Ron Nicholls
date: 1999-11-13 00:00:01
subject: 2.1

JP>  RN> After disk 4 you reinsert the disks installation and one
JP>  RN> before continuing with the rest.
JP>  RN> I wondered why the disk images weren't stored in a temp directory to 
JP>  RN> avoid this?
JP> 
JP> Because OS/2 only reaches the stage where it is executing 
JP> user-mode programs, such as SYSINST*.EXE, several floppy 
JP> discs into the whole process.
JP> 
JP> 
JP>  and that there 
JP> may not even *be* a destination disc drive at all since the 
JP> hard disc may be blank, requiring FDISK to be run first and 
JP> the installation procedure to then be restarted from the 
JP> beginning.
JP> 

Understood all of that, thanks

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