Merge 4.11e and OS 5.04
Robert E. Laughlin
I have OS 5.04 on my machine. Yesterday I downloaded Merge 4.11e
and installed it. With two exceptions every thing works right. The first
and only realy important one is that I can not access A:. The second one
is that Start->Shutdown hangs with a dark screen. The screens not black,
just dark. It will not exit unless I click on the window->exit menue.
The exit problem I can live with. The first I can not. I
reloaded Merge 4.02 and every thing works correctly, except for the No
License error message. I can live with that if I have to. I would rather
upgrade, if the access to a: can be fixed. Does any one have some ideas?
Bob
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: I have OS 5.04 on my machine. Yesterday I downloaded Merge 4.11e
: and installed it. With two exceptions every thing works right. The first
: and only realy important one is that I can not access A:. The second one
Where did you download merge 4.11e from? I have not been able to find
it on SCO's web page or at their ftp site.
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| Robert E. Laughlin <b...@spawar.navy.mil> wrote:
| : I have OS 5.04 on my machine. Yesterday I downloaded Merge 4.11e
| : and installed it. With two exceptions every thing works right. The first
| : and only realy important one is that I can not access A:. The second one
|
| Where did you download merge 4.11e from? I have not been able to find
| it on SCO's web page or at their ftp site.
Unless that's a typo. So far as I know, www.sco.com still only offers
4.1.1d.
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John Temples
Jean-Pierre Radley <j...@jpr.com> wrote:
>Unless that's a typo. So far as I know, www.sco.com still only offers
>4.1.1d.
"custom" shows mine as 4.1.1e. And I also have the floppy access
problem.
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Robert E. Laughlin
Thank you for this message. I reinstalled Merge 4.11e and ran
/usr/lib/merge/bin/upgrade_flop.sh. This did not fix the floppy problem.
I made the changes to /etc/default/merge and to
/etc/conf/pack.d/merge/space.c and relinked the kernel. After rebooting
merge 4.11e works correctly, both accessing the floppy and shutting down.
Now I do not have the pmd problem and the floppy works and it will
shutdown, great.
Thanks Bob
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, David Peet wrote:
> "Robert E. Laughlin" wrote:
> > I have OS 5.04 on my machine. Yesterday I downloaded Merge 4.11e
> > and installed it. With two exceptions every thing works right. The first
> > and only realy important one is that I can not access A:. The second one
> > is that Start->Shutdown hangs with a dark screen. The screens not black,
> > just dark. It will not exit unless I click on the window->exit menue.
> >
> > The exit problem I can live with. The first I can not. I
> > reloaded Merge 4.02 and every thing works correctly, except for the No
> > License error message. I can live with that if I have to. I would rather
> > upgrade, if the access to a: can be fixed. Does any one have some ideas?
> >
> > Bob
>
> New to Merge 4.1.1 for OpenServer, the floppy is now accessed in the same
> way as it is on Merge for Unixware (via the UNIX floppy driver)
> instead of "direct attached" as it had been done. This change is
> because on faster machines the direct attach of the floppy often
> has problems because of timing.
>
> (Note: The released version of Merge 4.1.1 is cycle e. If you have
> cycle d, then you have a beta and you should really be using the
> final released version. See my page http://www.lainet.com/~peet/Merge/
> for links to where you can download it from SCO.)
>
> For a Win95 that was installed when direct attach floppy was being
> used, the registry needs to be updated so that Windows can use
> the new accesss method.
>
> The problem is that Merge is supposed to update your existing Windows
> registry when you upgrade to 4.1.1, and this update must have failed
> insome way.
> (Any new installation of Windows after the upgrade will not have
> the problem. It is only an issue of changing the hardware setup
> for an existing Windows installation.)
>
> What is supposed to happen is that the program
> /usr/lib/merge/bin/upgrade_flop.sh
> is supposed to be run the first time you use Merge after upgrading.
> This is supposed to update the registry.
>
> Either this did not get run automatically or it failed someway.
> You can retry this by running it. Just running it (with no
> parameters) will upgrade your regular Windows installation as
> specified by your "win" personal configuration. If you have other
> personal windows95 configurations, you need to run this script for
> each one, using as a parameter the name of the configuration.
>
> If this does not work you have two choices:
> 1: Reinstall Windows so the new installation will work with
> the new floppy access method.
> 2: Change Merge to use direct attach floppy access so
> old installations of Windows will work as is.
>
> o Change the MERGE_DIRECT_FLOPPY_ENABLE switch in
> /etc/default/merge from off to on.
> o Edit /etc/conf/pack.d/merge/space.c and change
> the value of _M_direct_attach_floppy from 0 to 1
> and rebuild a kernel (/etc/conf/cf.d/link_unix -y)
> and then reboot.
>
> -- David Peet
> -- (If you want to sent me email, refer to my
> -- web page www.lainet.com/~peet/Merge/ )
David Peet
John Temples
>/usr/lib/merge/bin/upgrade_flop.sh. This did not fix the floppy problem.
>I made the changes to /etc/default/merge and to
>/etc/conf/pack.d/merge/space.c and relinked the kernel. After rebooting
>merge 4.11e works correctly, both accessing the floppy and shutting down.
Ditto for me. Thanks David.