[129] in OS/2_Discussion
Re: IBM OS/2 2.1 SERVICEPAK (XR06200) AVAILABLE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Shabsin)
Fri Feb 25 12:48:01 1994
To: klund@MIT.EDU
Cc: os2@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 25 Feb 94 10:59:16 -0500.
<9402251559.AA11091@m1-142-13.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 12:47:22 EST
From: Chris Shabsin <shabby@MIT.EDU>
|> Since it is 30 megabytes of *.dsk files, and having all 40 of us
|> download it and copy it separately would be a huge bandwidth-sink and
|> time-sink, I will try to find a temporary local repository for it that
|> is accessiable to the MIT community. (It will probably start out in
|> /mit/bitbucket/CSD, and then move to the /mit/os2 locker (maybe))
|> (If you have another suggestion, *please* let me know).
I think /mit/bitbucket is one of the best possible locations for it,
although I may be able to provide a more permanent NFS mount location
for it (by the way, everyone, look at sofa.mit.edu:/var/local/os2...
c-kermit, emacs, and gcc2 are currently there... Anyone with NFS can
mount and should be able to read it... oops. well, I'll fix it so
anyone can read it soon.) NFS is just better than AFS for purposes of
mounting on an OS/2 system.
|> Please stay tuned for more information. If you make disks (or buy the
|> CD-ROM version), and you're willing to let someone else borrow them,
|> post to the discuss meeting (rather than over email) and lend them out
|> to other members of the MIT OS/2 USERS GROUP (or send email to me).
If I had blank floppies I would... do you know if it's possible to
run the upgrade off the net or off a hard drive? Or do you boot off
the disk images? How do they make a 30-disk upgrade to a 20-disk
operating system anyway? :)
|> This servicepak does NOT apply to customers using OS/2 VERSION 2.1
|> FOR WINDOWS. Although a servicepak for OS/2 VERSION 2.1 FOR WINDOWS
|> will be made available shortly, the information in this announcement
|> applies only to the OS/2 VERSION 2.1 product that was made available
|> in June of 1993.
I just thought this particular point should be made very clear. It's
not for OS/2 for Windows.
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