Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!agate!library.ucla.edu!news.mic.ucla.edu!usenet From: stephen@eggneb.astro.ucla.edu (Stephen Schimpf) Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: MYST won't even install! Date: 3 Aug 1994 03:29:03 GMT Organization: UCLA Dept of Astronomy Lines: 31 Distribution: world Message-ID: <31n2tv$8f@news.mic.ucla.edu> References: Reply-To: stephen@eggneb.astro.ucla.edu (Stephen Schimpf) NNTP-Posting-Host: trifid.astro.ucla.edu X-Newsreader: mxrn 6.18-6 In article , colin@mcs.com (Colin M. Chisholm) writes: |>I just bought MYST and have to admit that I'm not impressed. I can't even get |>the damn thing to install! The install program says that there's a fatal |>error, an invalid line header and then I get a general protection fault in |>KRN386.EXE. Just to experiment I found out that I can't install the SB |>drivers from the CD either. Same type of error message. |> |>Does *anybody* have the slightest idea what's wrong? I'll call tech support |>on Monday morning but, jeez, I'm sure not overjoyed with my new purchase. :-( Edit your autoexec.bat file, comment out the line that runs the Corel CD-ROM driver corelcdx, and add a line that runs Microsoft's mscdex driver that comes with MS-DOS. Just like you I found that I could not install the new SB software or MYST itself, and was about to give up in frustration. Then I switched from the corelcdx to mscdex and everything worked just fine! Have fun with MYST! Stephen -- _ _ _ _ Stephen Michael Schimpf |\ /| |--- |--- - |-\ |--- /---\ | | Programmer/Analyst II | \/ | |-- | -. /_\ | | |-- | |---| UCLA Department of Astronomy | | |--\ |--| / \ |-/ |--\ | | | 405 Hilgard Avenue | / \ | Los Angeles, CA 90024-1562 / Brother will kill brother \ (310) 825-5183 / Spilling blood across the land \ Killing for religion stephen@eggneb.astro.ucla.edu Something I don't understand