Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!indri!nic.MR.NET!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: FASTBACK PLUS Message-ID: <13513@ncoast.ORG> Date: 28 Mar 89 00:34:16 GMT References: <441@nvuxk.UUCP> <45900214@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 29 As quoted from <45900214@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> by mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu: +--------------- | 2. The user might want to use a directory of HIS choice, not yours - | and might not be ABLE to install from a: (if your disks are 5 inch | and his a: is 3 inch!) (Microsoft does OK here.) +--------------- Only partially. When we installed Apex (which comes with Windows) on a Dell 220, the install went fine until it ran MEMSET -- which absolutely INSISTED that the Utilities disk be in A:. Since Apex comes on 5 1/4" disks, and the Dell 220 has a 3 1/2" A:, I had to abort MEMSET and build a special disk for it. --Following which, every time we started Windows we got an annoying "memory size changed, run SETUP" message until I finally got sick of it and re-installed Windows from scratch. Sigh.... +--------------- | 3. The user might want to just change PART of an installation, not the whole | thing. Windows is a big offender here. +--------------- Sigh. Isn't it, though? Couldn't they have taken an example from their own MS Word 4.0 install program? ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@ncoast.org uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@ NCoast Public Access UN*X - (216) 781-6201, 300/1200/2400 baud, login: makeuser