can't install Warp v3, similar to Mark McFArland's problem

can't install Warp v3, similar to Mark McFArland's problem

Post by Ston » Fri, 19 Apr 1996 04:00:00



I was cruising this news group from w4w3.11 because i can't get os/2 to
install on my main machine, a 486DX/2-66. i read MArk's problem and found
it to be very similar to mine. when i give it diskette number one, it
loads all of teh drivers and then tries to start "the session,"
presumably so that it can copy the files and set itself up. but then, it
starts into a loop. it keeps going back over the same spot on the
diskette as if looking for something. i called IBM tech support and they
told me to get WARPINST, well i did, and it hasn't done me any good.

please help, i have W95 on three other of my computers, and i HATE it!
but i can't live with an os that won't install--that can cause problems
when one tries to use it [sarcastic emphasis added ;-)]
and then there's w4w, it's just win+net and still stinks! :-(

help!!

i'll email specifcs of my system to anyone who asks for them.
thanx, |-)

--
Aaron Stone
Hey--It's Windoze95, from the guys who brought us EDLIN;
        Go Figure...

 
 
 

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--
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