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Date:	Wed, 28 Jan 2004 21:02:53 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: SmartSuite re-install?

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In <40188A2D.9000701@san.rr.com>, on 01/28/04
at 08:21 PM, Tom Brown said:

>C: 63,914,954 K bytes free (JFS)
>D: 1,423,682 K bytes free (boot drive, HPFS)
>E: 514,868,736 bytes free (maint partition, HPFS)
>F: 1,066,807 K bytes free (empty, HPFS)
>G: 3,478,855 K bytes free (programs & data, JFS)
>I: 193,290,240 bytes free (temp, JFS)

This might be a problem of too much free space on drive C:.

>SET TMP=I:\var\temp
>SET TEMP=I:\var\temp
>SET TMPDIR=I:\var\temp

You might try:

SET EPFITMPDIR=I:\var\temp

too.

>I moved the TMP directories to the C: drive, thinking that it might be
>running out of space on I:, and re-booted. Started the installation
>again. It came up with a message that some program that was part of the
>install was already running.

That will be worse. This is old code which may not deal will with large
drives.

> EPFIE604: Installation cannot continus
> because an installation utility file is
> already in use. Calos all versions of
> the installation utility and retry the
> operation.
> CANCEL

Check the root of drive C: for something that look like a work file with a
timestamp that matches when you ran the installer.

>The lack of useful information reminds me of the computer operators who
>used to tell me "The job blew up." They had no further information, and
>I had to run it myself to determine the actual cause, ususally that they
>had used the wrong input tape or not run a prerequisite job! This was an
>internal IBM DP shop where I was the systems programmer.

The Software Installer is actually a pretty good piece of code. Like many
of the other OS/2 components, it simply has not maintained since about
1995. This means there will be glitches when running on newer/larger
hardware. That's the way it is.

Did you bother to look at the log file in \os2\install?

Regards,

Steven

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