[Shotimes] Re: ford cds - ISSUES RESOLVED

[Ian Fisher]

Thanks for hosting these John

BTW, what is the difference between the 93-94 ISO and
the seperate 93 and 94 ISO's?

Thanks
Ian

--- Jon Heese <shotimes@jonheese.com> wrote:

> Well, I was skeptical, but thanks to Racer X on the
> TCCA Forums, I have 
> figured out the problems with the Ford Shop Manual
> CDs.  And for all 
> interested: I am officially a bonehead. =)
> 
> I had been testing the ISOs by mounting them on my
> Linux machine and 
> running the install from the mounted image. I guess
> I must've installed 
> the first year directly from a CD and then just
> assumed that mounting 
> the ISO was just as good as a real CD. Of course,
> one of the obvious 
> differences between a bona fide CD and a mounted
> disc image is the lack 
> of a volume label (and the bonehead assumption that
> a Win16 app would be 
> okay making CD callbacks to a dir on a network
> drive, vs. a real CD drive).
> 
> So, at the end of any other suggestions, I dug out a
> hard copy of one of 
> the CDs and installed it from there: voila! Oh well,
> sorry for all the 
> unnecessary delays everyone.
> 
> NOW: the challenge will be to get the proper volume
> labels for the discs 
> for which I only have ISOs. I know the following
> labels (and will be 
> posting such on the webpage
> (http://www.jonheese.com/fordcds/) momentarily):
> 
> 1992 Car: 92VEH04_0
> 1994 Car: 94CAR06_0
> 1995 Car: 95CAR11
> 1996 Car: 96CAR17
> 1997 Car: 97CAR22
> 1998 Car: 98CAR09
> 2001 Car: 01CAR07 or 01CAR08
> 2002 Truck: 02TRK02
> 
> For all the people who uploaded images for which I
> don't have volume 
> labels, I'd appreciate it if you could check the
> volume label on the 
> disc and drop me a line.  Please irect all email on
> the matter to 
> fordcds@jonheese.com.
> 
> Thanks for all the help and advice.
> 
> Regards,
> Jon Heese
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