AVG- rescue floppies - can't complete

[David Shalita]

My brand newly downloaded AVG 6.0507 seems to be installed and scanning
OK on my WIN98SE system. But, I cannot create a complete 2 floppy Rescue
set. First floppy is created and says " not enough room, insert 2nd
floppy". The 2nd empty floppy seems to abort immediately with "Rescue
Set Not Created" error message. That floppy is empty after the "abort"

What might I be doing wrong and how do I correct?
Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[FromTheRafters]

My brand newly downloaded AVG 6.0507 seems to be installed and scanning
OK on my WIN98SE system. But, I cannot create a complete 2 floppy Rescue
set. First floppy is created and says " not enough room, insert 2nd
floppy". The 2nd empty floppy seems to abort immediately with "Rescue
Set Not Created" error message. That floppy is empty after the "abort"

What might I be doing wrong and how do I correct?
Thanks for any suggestions.

See the thread:

AVG Rescue Disk gaffe....

of:

Sunday, August 03, 2003 5:14 PM

by:

Phineas T. Higgenbotham <[email protected]>

....in this very newsgroup.

 

[David Shalita]

See the thread:

AVG Rescue Disk gaffe....

of:

Sunday, August 03, 2003 5:14 PM

by:

Phineas T. Higgenbotham <[email protected]>

...in this very newsgroup.

Thank you for the pointer.
I just found "AVG Rescue Disk gaffe...."

What a surprise. File too large for one FLOPPY.

I will write the rescue info to a HD until
the Floppy set fix is created.

Thanks again, Dave

 

[Bart Bailey]

In Message-ID:<[email protected]> posted on Tue, 05 Aug

My brand newly downloaded AVG 6.0507 seems to be installed and scanning
OK on my WIN98SE system. But, I cannot create a complete 2 floppy Rescue
set. First floppy is created and says " not enough room, insert 2nd
floppy". The 2nd empty floppy seems to abort immediately with "Rescue
Set Not Created" error message. That floppy is empty after the "abort"

What might I be doing wrong and how do I correct?
Thanks for any suggestions.

Forgot to remove the write protect on the second floppy?

 

[Hannibal]

FromTheRafters wrote:

Are you one of those people who own one of those
really really old computers that still had a floppy disk
drive? ;o)

You're a funny person, except when you're not. I have a floppy on my P4
and my brother doesn't, so every time I want to send him a file larger
than my email attachment limit, I have to waste a bloody CD. We'll be
splitting on a USB pen drive soon, since that seems like the best solution.

Hannibal

 

[FromTheRafters]

FromTheRafters wrote:



You're a funny person, except when you're not.

Actually I don't think it's very funny either, I don't have
anything more modern than a 4x cd-rom drive. My
floppy's are the only writeable removeable media I've
got.

I have a floppy on my P4
and my brother doesn't, so every time I want to send him a file larger
than my email attachment limit, I have to waste a bloody CD.

Doesn't your (and his) e-mail client support breaking apart messages
and recombining them upon receipt? You could post it to a binaries
newsgroup too couldn't you?

We'll be
splitting on a USB pen drive soon, since that seems like the best solution.

There you go...

I have to upgrade my computaur just to support USB.

 

[Hannibal]

Actually I don't think it's very funny either, I don't have
anything more modern than a 4x cd-rom drive. My
floppy's are the only writeable removeable media I've
got.

I was where you are until recently, so I know how you must feel. I
worked off a Pentium Pro - that's right, a PI - as recently as a couple
of months ago. Of course, it was good only for dialup, so I didn't have
to worry about all this AV/firewall stuff, so there were benefits. But
my computer was too wimpy to run the new Pool of Radiance game, and by
the time I upgraded the game was no longer available anywhere in Canada.
(Amazon won't ship it here.)

BTW, an external USB floppy, such as the kind floppyless laptops need,
costs about $80 Canadian and has to be special ordered. A standard
internal floppy costs about $15 Canadian. Soon it will be less because
system vendors will stop including them in the systems they sell.

Hannibal

 

[Nomad]

Thank you for the pointer.
I just found "AVG Rescue Disk gaffe...."

What a surprise. File too large for one FLOPPY.

I will write the rescue info to a HD until
the Floppy set fix is created.

With the advent of AVG v7.0 (pay) now out, I highly doubt Grisoft will fix
AVG v6...not cost effective.


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[Bart Bailey]

In Message-ID:<[email protected]> posted on Wed, 6 Aug

Wrong. The rescue disk information takes up to 2 megs of space; but for
some reason the files are not splitting themselves up correctly across the 2
floppies.

OK
I might suggest when you get it all sussed out, that you make a set of
floppy based F-Prot files. They will span with the loaddef switch, and
prompt for sequential disks.
Some would argue that F-Prot is at least equal, or superior to, AVG as
an AV tool.
Here's a quick guide to creating the set:
http://www.f-prot.com/support/fpdos_faq/06.html