Merge Floppy access

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Subject: Re: Merge 4.11e and OS 5.04
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"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.

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