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Setup Wizard creates Dist. Disk too big
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07/03/1997 07:20:12
Bob Tracy
Independent Consultant
Driftwood, Texas, United States
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Visual FoxPro
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Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00023179
Message ID:
00023320
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>>>>When I use the Setup Wizard to create 1.44 diskc, they are just a bit too gib to fit on a floppy. In the KB they say to disable disk caching. My question is does this work. And if it does, how do you dissable disk caching in Win95? thanks for the help.
>>>
>>>Bob,
>>>Are you using the NEW Setup Wizard ? If not, download this first !
>>>
>>>Sounds scary to me, but acording to Windows Resource kit..
>>>
>>>To disable caching: Control Panel, System Icon, Performance Tab, File system button. Write caching: TroubleShooting tab, Disable write behind caching checkbox. Read caching: Read ahead optimization slider to none.
>>>
>>>HTH
>>
>>I am using VFP3.0. The only new setup wizard that I can find only fixes the problm of long file names. Is there another one, if so where is irt
>>thanks
>
>There is a previous thread on this subject. The quick answer is to copy the distribution disks from your hard drive to floppies at the DOS propmt.
>If you look at the report generated by the Setup Wizard, the files are not larger than your floppy, Windows just thinks they are for some unknown reason. Anyway, going backwards to the DOS prompt COPY (with the /V switch set) is the way I do it.
>
>Bob

also create your disk images on your hard drive and not on a network drive...
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