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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 00:26:27 PDT
From: Steven Levine <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject: SCOUG-Help: Help Desk Request

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In <199910242052.2311860.7@sundialsystems.com>, on 10/24/99
at 08:52 PM, rcambra@tpg.com.au said:

>update the floppies so that Warp can
>install. I've tried their updated driver
>for hard disks bigger than 4.3Gb, but
>the installer just hangs after it has
>copied the system files to the hard disk
>and then tries to reboot to continue
>installation. That idea has now been
>exhausted several times. My hard disk
>partitions go something like this:-

Most likely you forgot to add the line:

SET COPYFROMFLOPPY=1

to CONFIG.SYS. Unless you do this, the install will use the drivers off
the CD and you will experience the failure you had.

Another solution is to go to IBM's thinkpad site and download the two
replacement install diskette images. These will work with any system
several additional installation fixes.

Steven

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Steven Levine MR2/ICE #10183 Warp4/FP11
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