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From: kevin@math.lsa.umich.edu (Kevin Coombes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MS DOS 5.0 Install procedure
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.181113.6331@math.lsa.umich.edu>
Date: 27 Jun 91 18:11:13 GMT
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In article <3479@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <1991Jun13.062855.16838@beach.csulb.edu> sichermn@beach.csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes:
>| 
>|   What does the setup procedure (install) for msdos 5.0 do precisely
>| that makes it different from the old way of format, sys, and copying
>| the dos files. Does it write to the install disk also ?
>
>  Makes an uninstall package so you can back out if you decide you must.
>I have *never* heard of anyone trying it, however.
>-- 
>bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
>  GE Corp R&D Center, Information Systems Operation, tech support group
>  Moderator comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 386-users digest.

I tried it; it works quite nicely. (One of the TSRs in my autoexec.bat
turned out to be very sensitive to where in the sequence it got loaded,
and crashed the machine when setup tried to boot. Before I could make a
bootable floppy, of course. Uninstall was *very* useful.)

Kevin