tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz) (01/26/89)
WARNING!! There may be some serious problems using WP 5.0 under VP/ix! I just ran into this today, havn't come across a resolution yet, but be forewarned: Having just installed VP/ix, I went to install WP 5.0. (11-15) Since WP requires a C: drive, and I had set up VP/ix to provide a local C: psuedo-drive, I installed WP on the C: psuedo-drive. Called it from the command line, loaded just fine, looked great. Recognized my VGA card and everything. <Shift>-F1 to setup. Selected Keyboard layout. Selected 1, Select. Dead freeze. Nothing I did (tried to <Ctrl><Alt><Delete>, tried to multiscreen out, tried to login: from the attached terminal) had any effect. Nothing. Dead hang. Finally, in desparation, turned off the power. Waited a while, turned it back on. Nothing. Blank screen. Didn't even give me the "Phoenix Bios..." message, never got to the disk access part of the process. I don't know what happened, I can't imagine what WP might have done or tried to do. All I know is, it killed my Wyse 3216. And I'm not pleased. So beware, folks. This could happen to you! Just to find out, I went through the same keystroke sequence on the AT clone where WP is currently installed. (It belongs to Accounting, who wants the space it takes up, which is why I was installing it on the Xenix machine in the first place) and it also caused a system hang (I guess because I'm asking to select from a nonexistent list of Keyboard Setups) but I was able to <Ctrl><Alt><Delete> successfully out of that one. Grrrrrrr.... I'll report any solution I come up with. I'm also open to >any< suggestions, at this point. -- "Big Bob says he's getting tired of you saying he |"Do you think God lets doesn't really exist." - Fat Little Nerdy Kid - | you plea bargain?" Tom Betz - ZCNY - Yonkers, NY - 914-375-1514 |"I'd worry more about ...cmcl2!dasys1!tbetz OR ...uunet!dasys1!tbetz | your mom." - C & H