From: ted@isgtec.com (Ted Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: GA install problems
Date: 13 Apr 92 16:22:48 GMT
Organization: ISG Technologies Inc. Mississauga Ont. Canada

Some problems and questions about the GA installation:

  1. When initially booting from the installation disk, I get the message
     SYS0037 - cannot write to diskette A: (or something like that).
     This is not too surprising, since the 3.5" floppy doesn't even
     have a write-enable slider in the write-protect slot.  If I
     respond with "pass the error to the calling program", everything
     continues without problems.  Has anyone else seen this?

  2. Even though I migrated my windows applications to WIN-OS2, when I start
     a windows session, it says it can't find the group files in E:\<something-
     or-other>.  Not too surprising, since they are still in C:\WINDOWS
     where they've always been.  Are they supposed to be copied over?
     More to the point, should I change the WIN-OS2 startup to look on
     the C drive or move the group files to the E drive?

  3. In a similar vein, there seem to be separate font directories for
     the ATM fonts - E:\PSFONTS for OS/2 and C:\PSFONTS for windows.
     Any way to combine these?

  4. I had to temporarily re-connect my 3.5" drive as A:, since my BIOS
     won't let me boot from the B drive (normally I have a 5.25" A drive
     & a 3.5" B and I can't change it since the 5.25" drive will only
     accomodate the connector for A:).  Does anyone know if I can copy
     the install diskette to a 5.25" floppy, boot OS/2 from it and then
     continue the installation from the B drive?  There is something in
     the Installation Guide about being able to change the installation
     drive, but it seem to be in connection with installing over a network.

  5. I had problems downloading (at 2400 baud!) running Telix in a DOS box.
     Has anyone got this working reasonably (particularly at 9600 baud)?
     I only have an 8450 UART, but I've never had a problem at 2400 baud
     under Windows 3.0, and only rarely had problems at 9600 baud (only
     when running in the background).  This is on a 486/33, by the way.

  6. I use a TSR program (PCPANEL) that automatically switches my printer
     between Postscript mode and Laserjet emulation mode based on what it
     sees going to LPT1.  When I tried loading it in a DOS box using the 
     DOS_DEVICE (?) attribute, I got an error about not being able to load
     a block device or something similar.  Has anyone succesfully loaded
     this or a similar TSR?  I did get it to load in an OS/2 command window,
     but didn't have time to see if it really worked (it still wouldn't pop
     up the menu that allows you to reconfigure the TSR on the fly).

  7. Why are the labels on the 3.5" diskettes upside-down???

E-mail responses would be appreciated, since I get mailed responses in
minutes, but won't see posted ones for three or four days.  I will post
the responses (if any).  Thanks in advance.

By the way, one of the nice things about OS/2 that nobody has mentioned yet
is that printing from DOS programs goes through the OS/2 spooler, which never
seemed to happen with the Windows spooler (unless I had it configured wrong).
It also seems much faster than the Windows 3.0 spooler.
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Ted Richards            ted@isgtec.com             [...!uunet.ca!isgtec!ted]
ISG Technologies Inc.   3030 Orlando Dr. Mississauga  Ont.  Canada   L4V 1S8
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