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Started by sil... Patrick Boudreau
Mon, 17 Jan 1994 06:20
Installing on Stacked Drives
Author: sil... Patrick Boudreau
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 06:20
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 06:20
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I recently acquired DOOM1_1.zip from ftp.uwp.edu ... I ran into a problem when trying to install it on my stacked drive. I pkunziped the file in a temporary directory, and then tried the install command (or was it setup... I don't remember), anyway, I tried to install the game, but it would give me a "WRITTING ERROR" halfway through the process. Even weirder was that after that, STACKER was activated as if I wanted to stack a new drive. Like I said... weird! After trying this for an unremembered and unwanted to be rembered amount of times, I decided to try something different: I only had about 1.5 meg of uncompressed space on my D drive, so I reconfigured my stacker drive so that I had at least 10 megs of free space on D. I then tried to install DOOM again, and when asked which drive to install to, I chose D, and VOILA! It installed like a charm! I was so happy that I had'nt wasted X number of hours douwnloading a program that I thought would never work on my pc... After whetting my appetite with this marvel of a game, I decided to try something else: I went on my C drive and made a doom directory, I then copied all DOOM files from D: to C: Lo and Behold! It WORKED! The game played beautifully. I suggest to anyone who encounters this problem to try the same method and see if it works. I would like to hear from people who have had the same problem and try my method... I had not seen any posting about STACKER installation, I hope this helps... Thank you for your time and patience. Patrick Boudreau silver@mailserv.nbnet.nb.cs
Re: Installing on Stacked Drives
Author: d... Daniel J Rabinowitz
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 07:09
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 07:09
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I would bet you have ..\STACKER in your path! You ran
Stacker's INSTALL instead of DOOM's install, probably!
-dan
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Re: Installing on Stacked Drives
Author: Steven Goldstein
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 16:09
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 16:09
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I installad Doom 1.1 registered version to a stacked drive with NO problems
whatsoever. I was using Dos 5.0 and Stacker 2.0, if it helps, on a 486sx25
with 21 Megs free.
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stupid subject headers
Author: nat... Nathan Christopher Pritch...
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 19:35
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 19:35
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ok. i m sorry i flamed the guy for having a valid subject line relating both to his message and to the quoted message. i apologized to him to personally, but i already got one flame here and there are probably more to come. i accidentally used the wrong example, but my point is still valid. many messages have subject lines which relate in no way to what they are discussing. i just politely ask that everyone keep this in mind.
Re: Installing on Stacked Drives
Author: cspa... L.S. Rosenquist
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 12:57
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 12:57
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sil...@nbnet.nb.ca (Patrick Boudreau) writes: >I would like to hear from people who have had the same problem and try my >method... >I had not seen any posting about STACKER installation, I hope this helps... >Thank you for your time and patience. I have stacker v3.1 and DOS 6.2 and I had nor problems installing it at all! Lars
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