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Date:	Fri, 23 Mar 2001 09:16:34 PST
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Installing from floppy

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In <3.0.6.32.20010323080632.008148f0@mail.vcnet.com>, on 03/23/01
at 08:06 AM, scarter@vcnet.com said:

>Hoping to avoid making a bunch of floppies, I was wondering about
>altenative installation methods, in particular the possibility of using
>a virtual floppy to hold the images during the install.

Nah, there are much simpler ways.

>UN_0980 is apparently NOT on the Warp UP! CD from 4/2000; I've ordered
>the newest, but don't realistically expect that this 1998 era update is
>on that one either.

Why not? It's the most recent FP for 16-bit TCPIP and it's still in
service?

>Does anyone have experience or advice in this area?

Yes. Me among multitudes of others. :-) Go to Hobbes and find a copy of
dskxtract. Extract the FP to a disk drive and install from there.

Just a comment. All FP's are designed to be capable of CID install. This
means the FP image can be placed on a hard drive and installed from there.
The hard drive can be local or remote. In big organizations, remote is
more often the case. .dsk images made sense in the days of OS/2 2.1. As
to why IBM continues to insist on supplying FP's in this format rather
than something more convenient for today's technologies is a question
someone else will have to answer.

Steven

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