Microsoft KB Archive/101879

Installing PowerPoint 3.0 on the OmniBook

PSS ID Number: Q101879 Article last modified on 02-18-1998

3.10

WINDOWS

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= SYMPTOMS =

When you try to install Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows on the Hewlett- Packard (HP) OmniBook 300 using the LapLink remote, the following error message appears

Tried to create an invalid path using  and people.pp_

where  is the remote computer.

The same error can also occur if you try to install Microsoft Word for Windows to a Bernoulli removable-media drive.

= CAUSE =

The HP OmniBook 300 ships with Microsoft Windows version 3.1 preinstalled on Flash read-only memory (ROM) and does not have a floppy disk drive. All installations of software must be done using the LapLink remote to a host computer.

Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows does not support set up from a shared removable media (floppy disk drive).

= WORKAROUND =

To work around this problem:


 * 1) Create a directory for each disk on the host machine. Name the directories Disk1, Disk2, and so forth.
 * 2) Copy the contents of each disk to the appropriate directory.
 * 3) On the OmniBook machine, start Windows File Manager and select the mapped hard disk drive of the host machine.
 * 4) Change to the directory named Disk1.
 * 5) Select the PowerPoint SETUP.EXE file and run Setup.

= MORE INFORMATION =

Technical support for the HP OmniBook is available 5:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Pacific time, Monday through Friday, at (503) 757-2004. Hewlett-Packard also has a fax number, (503) 760-5488, and an automated support number, (800) 443-1254.

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