Article: Q96541
Product(s): Microsoft Disk Operating System
Version(s): MS-DOS:6.0
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Last Modified: 22-NOV-1999
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The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft MS-DOS operating system version 6.0
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SYMPTOMS
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If you run MS-DOS 6 Setup when you are logged onto a Novell server, Setup may
leave your Windows initialization (.INI) files in the root directory.
CAUSE
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This problem occurs when all the following conditions are exist:
- You are logged on as a supervisor or a user with full access privileges to
the root of the file server.
- You are using a shared installation of Windows (installed with the SETUP /N
command).
- Your Windows initialization files are in a user directory that is being
accessed with a search drive.
- You have installed the Windows-based optional utilities.
If these conditions exist, MS-DOS 6 Setup leaves the following initialization
files in the root of the Novell file server:
PROTMAN.INI
SYSTEM.INI
WINFILE.INI
Setup also leaves the backup (.BAK) files for those files in the root of the
Novell file server.
WORKAROUND
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Use one of the following techniques to correct this situation:
- If this is the only installation of MS-DOS 6 you plan to perform when you are
logged in as supervisor, you can simply move these six files back to the user
directory.
- If you plan to do multiple installations of MS-DOS 6 when you are logged in
as supervisor, temporarily override the search drive before beginning the
MS-DOS 6 Setup on each subsequent computer. For example, if your Windows
initialization files are accessed on Search drive W:\USER\JOEB. Before
beginning the MS-DOS 6 Setup type these two commands at the MS-DOS command
prompt:
" map del w:
map w:=sys:user\joeb" (without the quotation marks)
When MS-DOS 6 Setup prompts you for the location of Windows directory, use
W:\USER\JOEB for the path.
NOTE: If desired, you may substitute the second command above with the
following:
" map root w:=sys:user\joeb" (without the quotation marks)
When MS-DOS 6 Setup prompts you for the location of Windows, use W:\ for the
path.
MORE INFORMATION
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Do not use a search drive to specify the location of your Windows initialization
files. A search drive represents its drive letter as "<drive>:." instead
of "<drive>:\<pathname>." MS-DOS 6 looks at "<drive>:.",
changes to the root of the drive, and then looks for the current (.) directory.
This is why MS-DOS 6 writes the files to the root of the server.
If you are logged on as a user without write access privileges to the root of the
file server (as is generally the case with a user on a Novell network), the same
approach as described in the second technique applies. If you don't have
privileges in the root directory, the temporary initialization files (.$$$) are
written to your user directory. No changes are been made to your original
initialization files. You can safely delete these .$$$ files. Use the second
technique and then restart the MS-DOS 6 Setup program.
The following three .$$$ files may be left in your user directory:
__SYS__.$$$
__PGI__.$$$
__WFI__.$$$
If Setup detects that it did not need to modify one or more of the initialization
files, you may not have all three of these in your user directory.
NOTE: This information applies to both the SETUP and SETUP /E commands. (SETUP /E
is used to install the optional components.)
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Keywords :
Technology : kbMSDOSSearch kbMSDOS600
Version : MS-DOS:6.0
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