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Norton Utilities 5.01 Error Messages (Users)

posted by Doug E-mail, 18.08.2012, 23:54

Ok, that list helps a lot. I just pulled out my old NU8 installation diskettes, and comparing them to the posted list, they look similar. (Except for the "Update" directory and SYMCFG.BIN file which are not on my diskettes.)

So i did a test install with my files under the plainest-vanilla DOS i could, just to check everything out again... in lieu of my failing memory. All i had to do was run the INSTALL.EXE program and answer some prompts -- it took me through the entire process, step by step. I chose "Custom Install" (rather than "Full Install") so i didn't have to install any of the Windows utilities or icons.

So when i said in a previous post that it only installed under Windows, i was mistaken (there goes that darn ol' memory again!) I seem to have been confusing INSTALL.EXE (from the installation diskette) with INSTDOS.EXE (which is *created* by the installation) -- it was INSTDOS.EXE that requires Windows! I was remembering the wrong filename....

Anyway, after installation is complete, running NUCONFIG.EXE configures the whole set of utilities, running NORTON.EXE invokes the shell, and of course, each utility can run individually from the command line if one prefers.

Finally, something the opening installation screen cautions about that i think bears repeating: Don't install/copy the utilities onto a harddrive if there are any files on it that you want to unerase! Instead, copy the UNERASE.EXE, UNERASE.HLP, and NLIB200.RTL files to a diskette and use them from there. When you're done unerasing, *then* copy all the NU files to the harddisk.

- Doug B.

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