jumper@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Michael Lanham) (12/02/90)
Well, folks, thanks for the ideas, but actually here is the break down on what was actually the problem. I reformatted my harddisk using DOS 3.3 and tried to install using my backup 720 KB disks. IT WORKED! I then was finally able to get a hold of Aldus Pagemaker, and asked them why the INSTALL.EXE program was not running correctly under MS-DOS 4.01. The told me that SHARE.EXE and INSTALL.EXE don't get along and since the harddisk I had was >32 MB in size, the DOS automatically called SHARE.EXE. He recommended I create a floppy system disk and boot from it to get around the problem. I decided to reformat and reinstall DOS 4.01 AND create 2 20MB partitions instead of 1 40 MB. Since I did that, Pagemaker's INSTALL.EXE works, My Microsoft Excel (original disks) also now install, AND my FASTBACK also works (it did not before). The MS-DOS manual says that if my HD > 32 MB then SHARE is automatically loaded and that has also been said in several other threads here (which I had not followed since until now, I only had DOS 3.3). Now that it is not loaded into memory I have had no more problems -- He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. --- Sir William Drummond Michael Lanham mjlanham@eos.ncsu.edu & jumper@.catt.ncsu.edu