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From: evan@ndcheg.UUCP (Evan Bauman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: watch out for install program in LIm EMM 4.0
Message-ID: <327@ndcheg.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Nov-87 19:11:01 EST
Article-I.D.: ndcheg.327
Posted: Sat Nov  7 19:11:01 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Nov-87 02:22:49 EST
Organization: Univ. of Notre Dame
Lines: 32
Keywords: LIM, EMS, install, intel

Today I received a disk from Intel with the newest EMS drivers, version
4.0 .  The package contained mostly sales literature, a disk, and a 
short manual for the upgrade/installation.

Page 1 of the manual indicates that although I can do the installation
myself, I can also use the supplied INSTALL program.  Now I'm
perfectly capable of doing at, but since I saw no reason to re-invent
the wheel, I fired up the INSTALL program.

It asked me a few questions about the type of PC I was using (an XT-clone),
whether I wanted to configure a RAM disk (yes), and a print spooler (no).
It then asked me the letter for the drive that contained the system (C).

It then went about configuring the new software.  After a few seconds, I
got an error message indicating that it was unable to proceed.  It then
gave the option of continuing or halting.  I halted the program and tried
it again, this time at the standard 4.77MHz clock speed.  This didn't
work either.

Then I tried to quit the program but the PC crashed.  Then it wouldn't re-
boot.  I booted from a floppy and then tried to run some software from
the hard disk but kept getting 'bad file allocation table' messages.
Low-level panic set in.  I tried running chkdsk, but was unable to
fix the problem.  In the end, I had to re-format the disk and
re-install all my software and documents from a 2 month-old backup.

So beware of this INSTALL program.  When you get the upgrade disk,
do the installation manually; it doesn't look that difficult.

	Evan Bauman
	Univ. of Notre Dame
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