Electronic Pocket Reference Manual (EPRM) installation version 27th April 2001 README.

This document contains information on the EPRM installation (INF) files, base INF files, and brand INF files for Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, and IBM OS/2.
 
This installation requires approximately 36MB of space on your hard disk drive (drive C).

Print this file so that you can refer to it during the installation.

The complete set of Windows EPRM installation files includes the following:

WEPRMINF.EXE (Self extracting executable including WEPRM.INF, WEPRM5.INF, README.TXT, EPRMNEW.DOC)
WINEXE.EXE (DISKETTE-image)
WEPRM2.INF
WEPR2A.INF
WEPR2B.INF
WEPRM3.INF
WEPRM0.INF
WEPR2C.INF
WEPR2D.INF
WEPRMA.INF
WEPR3A.INF
WEPR3B.INF
WEPR2E.INF
WEPRM1.INF
WEPR3G.INF
WEPR3C.INF
WEPR3D.INF
WEPR2F.INF
WEPRMC.INF
WEPR3E.INF
WEPRMB.INF
WEPR3F.INF
WEPR2G.INF
WEPRMX.INF
WEPR2H.INF
WEPRXA.INF
WEPRXB.INF
WEPR3H.INF
WEPRM4.INF
WEPRADF0.INF
WEPRADF1.INF

WIN.EXE contains all *.DLL, README and iVIEW or XVIEW files necessary for Windows 3.1, Windows 95,
Windows 98, Windows Me, and Windows NT. 

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Downloading the Windows installation program
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1. Create a new directory on your hard disk drive (for example C:\EPRM).
2. Click the file link to download the file winx.exe from the Web page. 
3. When prompted, select the drive and directory you created in step 1 (C:\EPRM).
4. Click Save.
 
Installing the Windows version of EPRM
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1. Open a DOS command prompt.
2. Type cd X:\pathname and press Enter. X:\pathname represents the drive and directory in which
winx.exe is located (C:\EPRM).
3. Insert a blank 1.44MB floppy diskette into the diskette drive of your system.
4. Type winx.exe and press Enter. Follow the on screen instructions to complete the creation of the 
Windows installation diskette.
5. Type A: and press Enter. 
6. Type setup.exe and press Enter. The "nstall information" readme file will appear.
7. Click Continue to close the Install information readme file and continue the EPRM Installation & Setup wizard.
8. Follow the on screen instructions, accepting the default settings, to complete the installation of 
EPRM. The EPRM Program Group will be created.

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EPRM base files and brand INF files
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The minimum EPRM information (INF) files required to use EPRM are the EPRM base INF files. It is
necessary to download the appropriate brand INF files for brand information.

Downloading the base INF files
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1. Click the file link to download the base files from the Web page.
2. When prompted, detach all files to the drive and directory in which you saved winx.exe (C:\EPRM).
3. Click Save.

Downloading brand INF files
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1. Click the file link to download the brand files from the Web page.
2. When prompted, detach all files to the drive and directory in which you saved winx.exe (C:\EPRM).
3. Click Save.

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Updating an existing EPRM installation
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Each new version of EPRM contains the updated brand INF files from the previous releases and new 
updated brand INF files for the latest release. If you install each new version of EPRM as it is 
released, you only have to download the new update brand INF files (see Downloading brand files), for the brands that interest you.

NOTE: If you do not know which files to download, download all files.
 
Identifying new update files
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1. Review the date change in the Last Update field for each download. 
2. Review the eprmnew.doc file.

NOTE: For more information on updating EPRM see EPRM Help in the EPRM Program Group. 

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Using EPRM
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1. Click Start, then select Programs, then select EPRM, and click XView-EPRM. The IBM PC - EPRM
contents window will appear.
2. Double-click About this Manual. Read the latest EPRM information.

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Description of EPRM INF files
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 +---> EPRM.INF, EPRMA.INF, EPRMB.INF, EPRMC.INF ... PS/1 PS/2 PC Server/General information
 |
 |   +--> EPRM0.INF ... IBM OBI (Option)
 |   |
 |        EPRM1.INF ... Power PC
     C
 M   O    EPRM2.INF ... Laptop Notebook Portable ThinkPad Docking-Station
 I   N                  EPR2A.INF ...... Vol.-2
 N   T                  EPR2B.INF ...... Vol.-3
 I   E                  EPR2C.INF ...... Vol.-4
 M   N                  EPR2D.INF ...... Vol.-5
 U   T                  EPR2E.INF ...... Vol.-6
 M   S                  EPR2F.INF ...... Vol.-7
                        EPR2G.INF ...... Vol.-8
 |   |                  EPR2H.INF ...... Vol.-9
 |   |    EPRM3.INF ... PC Server
 |   |                  EPR3A.INF ............. Server
 |   |                  EPR3B.INF ............. ServeRAID, Netfinity
 |   |                  EPR3C.INF ............. Server, SSA RAID Cluster
 |   |                  EPR3D.INF ............. Server, 700-M10, ServeRAID HMM
 |   |                  EPR3E.INF ............. Server, Clustering
 |   |                  EPR3F.INF ............. Server
 |   |                  EPR3G.INF ............. Server
 |   |                  EPR3H.INF ............. Server, Storage
 |   |
 |   |    EPRM4.INF ... Networking CU's - 82xx, Network Station - 836x
 |   |
 |   +--> EPRM5.INF ... Display/Monitor
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 +---> EPRMX.INF, EPRXA.INF, EPRXB.INF ... HINTs/TIPs/BIOS/Miscellaneous/Abbreviations

EPRM add-on files
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EPRADF0.INF ... MicroChannel ADF-files part-1 - standalone
EPRADF1.INF ...   -- " --      - " -   part-2     - " -


IMPORTANT: If you are interested in Servers, only download the Server brand INF files you require. this will save you time and hard disk space on your system.

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The concept behind EPRM

Think of EPRM as a series of books placed in order on a bookshelf.

      +-+               +-+
      | |               |E|
      |E|               |P|         Bookshelf
      |P| ............. |R|       front - view
      |R|               |M|
      |M|               |X|
      +-+               +-+
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The first book on the bookshelf is EPRM.INF (leftmost) and the last book on the bookshelf (rightmost) is EPRMX.INF. All other EPRMx.INF books are arranged in order between these two books.

      +-++-++-++-++-++-++-+
      | ||E||E||E||E||E||E|
      |E||P||P||P||P||P||P|         Bookshelf
      |P||R||R||R||R||R||R|       front - view
      |R||M||M||M||M||M||M|
      |M||0||1||2||3||4||X|
      +-++-++-++-++-++-++-+


The first book of each brand set contains an index that allows access to the books (including chapters) within that brand set. 

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