Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 11:16:48 -0700 (MST)
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To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
From: raster AT highfiber DOT com (Charles Dye)
Subject: Re: INSTALLATION PROBLEMS OF DR DOS 7.02
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

>Greetings!
>
>I've downloaded the disk set of DR DOS 7.02 and tried to install it.
>Everything goes fine until I hear "READING DRDOS.INI" and then everything
>stops and the computer appears to go into some sort of graphics mode, if I
>press the enter key or any other key the computer just locks up, has anyone
>had this problem happen?  The computer I'm trying to install DR DOS onto is
>a 486 25MHZ and I have over 600 k of conventional memory free at the time
>of running "INSTALL".

I haven't seen this exact problem, but here's something you might try:
Open the file DRDOS.INI on the first disk with any text editor.  Find
the line "NewUI=On" and change it to "NewUI=Off"  Save the changed
file, exit and reboot.  Let us know if that makes a difference.

raster AT highfiber DOT com