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From: emeyer@cup.portal.com (Eric Paul Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Help needed with ISC 2.2 installation.
Message-ID: <32012@cup.portal.com>
Date: 23 Jul 90 18:20:30 GMT
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I have similar problems installing ISC 2.2 and dealing with INTERACTIVE:

1) DISKCOPY and Install Floppy

After many attempts, and after crashing my install floppy (see below)
I figured out that one can use DISKCOPY to copy those floppies.
Just do two DISKCOPY, the first one will scream at you telling every
side 1 track is bad, and the second one will work fine. Don't ask me
why...

2) Install floppy crashing

When I pressed the interrupt key while installing, INSTALL destryoed
my INSTALL floppy, beyhond any hope of repair. The INSTALL has some
serious bug to do that. I can repeat the step easily. RESULT: I cannot
install my system and I need a new disk from INTERATIVE. (See below).
Note: The INSTALL software destroyed the INSTALL disk by writing 0xff
in every second byte on sector 7/8/11/12 of track 0 side 0, sector
4/5/7/8 of track 0 side 1 and in the FS block (track 0 side 0 sector 1)...

3) Dealing with INTERACTIVE

Since I add destroyed my floppy on Tuesday, I immediatly called ISC
who told me they send me one. They refure to FEDEX it because I do not
have a FEDEX number yet, so they told me I will get it thru mail on
Thursday.
Thursday, no sign of the disk, so I call them back, and they told me
they send me another one, so I should get it on Saturday. 
Saturday, no sign of the disk....
Monday, I call back, complain and they tell me they FEDEX me one today
so I should get it tomorrow Tuesday...

That's more than a week now that I am trying to Install ISC 2.2, and
that I get false promises from Interactive.  They are nice on the phone
and help me fast, but it is just no use. I just want my floppy.

I hope Interactive will fix their INSTALL procedure, or at least give
2 INSTALL floppies in the distribution, since it is so hard to make
backup of the only writable floppy in the distribution.

Did anyone add similar problems to mine....

Eric P. Meyer
President
ELIABEL Corp.
emeyer@cup.portal.com

(415) 349 1021 - 1441 Beach Park Av. #217, Foster City CA 94404