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From: mullens@jamsun.ic.ornl.gov (James A. Mullens)
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Date: 6 May 91 13:35:38 GMT
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OS/2 1.3 installation bombed on my machine, possibly because of the
small size of the virtual disk installed when the installation disk
boots.

I was installing 1.3SE over 1.2SE on a vanilla AT clone from a
popular manufacturer.  The 5.25" version of the installation disk was
booted, questions were answered, and file copying began.  The
installation program crashed after a period of copying files from
installation disk 1.  Drive C had 7.7 Mb left after the aborted
installation.

The error message was:
  trap 000D
  AX = 0200 BX = 0001 CX = 0000 DX = 0000 BP = F780
  SI = 039B DI = 08EA DS = 03E0 ES = 0000 FLG = 2046
  CS = 01F8 IP = 6583 SS = 0038 SP = F760 MSW = FFFB
  CSLIM = 9752 SSLIM = F4E9 DSLIM = 0E07 ELSIM = ***
  CSACC = 9B SSACC = 97 DSACC = 93 ESACC = **
  ERRCD = 0000 ERLIM = **** ERACC = **
  The system detected an internal processing
  error at location #0228:361F
  Contact a service representative.

The last entry of the installation log left behind was the unpacking
of A:\DOSRFICO.DL@, which showed "0 copied, 1 unpacked".  I tried installation
twice with identical results.

Looking around I noticed that a virtual disk "H" was being used in the
file copying/unpacking operation and that it was only 130 Kb,
suspiciously small.  I doubled the size (see CONFIG.SYS on the
installation disk) and 1.3 installed without error.

jim mullens
mullens@jamsun.ic.ornl.gov