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From: ddl@husc6.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: Hercules driver/dll for PM
Keywords: hercules, PM
Message-ID: <3440@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 18 Dec 89 01:23:00 GMT
References: <2382@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <1703@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM>
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge MA
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In article <1703@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM>, brian@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Brian A. Onn) writes:
| You might want to try the following.  I haven't done this, but it may work.
| Go through the installation to completion. After the install disk you need to 
| reboot and it will ask for the other program disks.  At the end of copying the
| program files over, the installation scripts tell you to remove the last
| diskette and reboot with Ctrl-Alt-Del.  At this point, put a DOS diskette in
| drive A: and boot DOS.  Using your favourite editor, edit CONFIG.SYS on your
| C: drive and change the line that reads
| 
| 	PROTSHELL=C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE C:\OS2\OS2.INI C:\OS2\CMD.EXE
| to
| 	PROTSHELL=C:\INSTALL\SYSBAS.EXE C:\OS2\CMD.EXE

	This worked for me once.  I recall that it was important to
have a SYSINST.CMD file (SYSBAS.EXE wants to pass "/K SYSINST.CMD"
to CMD.EXE) else the system wouldn't come up.  I think an empty
file was ok.

| Then save and reboot, from the hard disk this time.  This should give you
| a command line interpreter in OS/2 mode.  
| 
| Then you can run all the non-PM applications you want. You may be able to
| switch between tasks still with the ALT-Esc combination, but I cannot 
| guarantee it.

	Alas, no.

				Dan Lanciani
				ddl@harvard.*