marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) (08/01/90)
Maybe I can save someone a little time with this post.
I just got my Excel 2.1C upgrade kit from MS. I started the
installation process, but when SETUP went to read the second disk, it
said it was defective.
I tested it with Norton Disk Doctor. I copied it to another disk. No
problems.
Then I remembered that I couldn't create a permanent swap file when I
had SUBSTituted drives, so I got rid of them. That didn't help either.
Then it dawned on me that MS can't create a Setup program that will run
when their own SHARE program is loaded. I renamed SHARE.EXE to S.EXE
and rebooted. Everything worked fine.
Why the hell can't MS warn people about this when they send out the
upgrade? This cost me nearly an hour - not counting this flame.
@#$%!& I HATE SHARE!!!
Hope this helps.
PS. The rumor that MS will send a copy of Win3 when you ask for the
free Excel upgrade without Win3 is not true - at least not anymore.
I only got two Excel floppies. 8-(
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Solar Energy Research Institute Solar - safe energy for a healthy futuremutchler@zule.EBay (Dan Mutchler) (08/01/90)
I've seen the same problem when installing Excel 2.0, but I have to run
SHARE because I have a large drive formatted as a single partition. Anybody
know of a work around for this, besides manually copying the diskettes?
Thanks
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H.L. Menckenmarshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) (08/03/90)
mutchler@zule.EBay (Dan Mutchler) writes: >I've seen the same problem when installing Excel 2.0, but I have to run >SHARE because I have a large drive formatted as a single partition. Anybody >know of a work around for this, besides manually copying the diskettes? The answer is to rename SHARE.EXE to something else. Reboot. Install Excel. Restore SHARE.EXE to its original name. Reboot again. This is what MS told me to do. I also have a single 322 MByte partition, but this works fine. I do this for all WinApps installs, but I normally run with SHARE loaded. I just wish MS would remind us of this "feature" in their installation documentation so we wouldn't waste so much time before we remember to rename SHARE. -- Marshall L. Buhl, Jr. EMAIL: marshall@seri.gov Senior Computer Missionary VOICE: (303)231-1014 Wind Research Branch 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401-3393 Solar Energy Research Institute Solar - safe energy for a healthy future
gt0159a@prism.gatech.EDU (LEVINSON,MARC LOUIS) (08/03/90)
In article <marshall.649453571@wind55> marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) writes: >installation process, but when SETUP went to read the second disk, it >said it was defective. > >I tested it with Norton Disk Doctor. I copied it to another disk. No >Then it dawned on me that MS can't create a Setup program that will run >when their own SHARE program is loaded. I renamed SHARE.EXE to S.EXE >and rebooted. Everything worked fine. > >Why the hell can't MS warn people about this when they send out the >upgrade? This cost me nearly an hour - not counting this flame. > I had the same problem and spent a phone call to Microsoft about it! Win3 made meload SHARE for the first time ever (Compaq DOS 3.3) and I forgot it was running. The tech rep cleared it up right away, told me to kill SHARE for thew install. Now to me, this seems STUPID!!! Why? because Windows 3 requires share to be loaded. I asked the tech rep why a warning about SHARE was not on the upgrade letter/instructions or in the README file and his answer was, MS: "We don't want to badmouth anybody elses product" to which I replied, ml: WHOSE? MS: "IBM PCDOS" ml: BUT Microsoft licenced DOS to IBM and includes (or wrote) SHARE with every copy of their operating system. Besides, Win3 REQUIRES SHARE to be loaded, therefore somebody should have added a warning instead of causing unneccessarry disk error messages. MS: "we did not want to cause alarm" ml: Tell Mr. Gates to get his departments coordinated, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to print or type one sentance than to have the technicians spend half their time answerinf STUPID questions for errors which should not have occured! I can't badmouth Microsoft too much. Sure they use a lot of *CHEAP* quality (read: bad, not functional, not readable) distribution diskettes, but has anybody else in TV land ever received a faster mail in upgrade than Win3? Igot mine in less than two weeks from the day I mailed in the form (from Florida - east coast all the way to Seattle). -- LEVINSON,MARC LOUIS Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!prism!gt0159a ARPA: gt0159a@prism.gatech.edu or marc@isye.gatech.edu