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Date:	Thu, 4 Jul 2002 08:19:44 PST7
From:	xowatson@concentric.net
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Basic Help

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On 4 Jul 2002 at 7:11, Harry Chris Motin wrote:

> SET COPYFROMFLOPPY=1
> I am not sure why you have that in the CONFIG.SYS file of your up and
> running and installed OS/2.

I had forgotten about that one, too, looked it up and the first hit was
from the esteemed Mr Warren at
http://www.scoug.com/Terry/w4inst/hints.htm. I think Harry's right,
Butch probably doesn't need it.
Using an Alternate Device Driver
In some cases you need to use a different version of a device
driver that is normally included in the OS/2 installation set. For
example, the FD16-700.ADD driver does not work correctly on
certain combinations of the FD1680 controller and Micropolis
2217 SCSI disk drive (this problem first appeared in Warp 3.0)
but the OS/2 2.11 driver does work ok. For this install, it was
necessary to copy the install diskette 1 and then overlay the
driver with the 2.11 version.
To make sure that the non-standard driver is used throughout the
install process, you add the following statement to the
CONFIG.SYS file:
SET COPYFROMFLOPPY=1
With this statement, you will be prompted to reinsert diskettes 1
and 2 at the end of the first install phase. NOTE:You should still
verify at the end of all install phases that the correct driver is
present on your hard drive in the apprpriate directory (usually
OS2\BOOT).

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