OSINWIND - WILL OS/2 WARP INSTALLATION REQUIRE WINDOWS DISKETTES?
02/09/96

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        Will OS/2 Warp Installation Require Windows Diskettes?
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DESCRIPTION

OS/2 Warp Installation stops if Windows diskettes are required and are 
not available

RESOLUTION

To determine if your version of OS/2 Warp requires Windows diskettes, 
check the file, x:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SETUP.INF (x is the drive where 
Windows is installed). This file has a [disks] section. The default 
line for Disk 1 is:
 
   1 =. ,"Microsoft Windows 3.1 Disk #1",disk1

This directs the request for Windows diskettes to the diskette drive.

If OS/2 Warp encounters a line such as:

   1 = C:\WINDOWS\DRIVERS,"Microsoft Windows 3.1 Disk #1",disk1

It looks at C:\WINDOWS\DRIVERS for the necessary files, and as they 
appear on the actual Windows diskettes. Most of these files are 
compressed and have an underscore as the last character of the file 
name (for example, WINHELP.EX_).
  
If SETUP.INF points to these files AND they are on the hard disk, OS/2 
Warp does not prompt you for Windows diskettes during installation.
 
The Windows system files that appear AFTER Windows is installed are not
the files OS/2 Warp is looking for. OS/2 Warp is looking for the files 
as they appear on the Windows installation diskettes to ensure the code
used for WIN-OS/2 support is the same code that was shipped with 
Windows.

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