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- Creating a Boot disk for OS/2 GA version for FAT FILE SYSTEM.
-
- Morton F. Kaplon CompuServe ID 73457,437
- Voice Phone 215/758-9686
-
- The procedure has changed from the Beta Versions. The Installation disk has
- SYSINSTX.COM on it as well as OS2KRNLI, OS2LDR, OS2LDR.MSG and a lot of
- other files which are not needed. Copy SYSINSTX.COM to your C: drive
- and from there give the command "SYSINSTX A:", where you have a formatted
- hi density disk in A:. All SYSINSTX does is copy the hidden file OS2BOOT
- to the A: drive. The other three OS2*.* files on the installation disk are
- not hidden and you can copy them to a: via C: or by whatever means you want.
- It is important to rename OS2KRNLI to OS2KRNL on the boot disk being created.
-
- The rest of the required files are all on Disk 1 of the Installation Set
- and they are listed below. There are a number of files with the numeral 1
- in their names. These files are for a CLONE. If you have a PS-2 machine
- there is a corresponding set, also on Disk 1 which have a 2 in place of the
- 1. Use those. If you have a PS-2 you probably also need to copy the file
- ABIOS.SYS which is on Disk 1 also. On Disk 1 there is a file named OS2SCSI.DMD
- which is not listed below. That is presumably their generic driver for SCSI
- drives and is probably needed for those with that kind of hard drive, and
- for which there should be a corrsponding statement in config.sys.
-
- I am not sure that all of these are absolutely required but I tried to
- get it down to a size that would fit on a 5 1/4" floppy and when I got
- there, I called it a day.
-
- Directory of a:\*.* Wed 04-29-1992 Files on the Boot Disk
-
- ansicall.dll 438 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- bkscalls.dll 401 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- bmscalls.dll 398 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- bvhinit.dll 9203 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- bvscalls.dll 454 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- clock01.sys 3666 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- cmd.exe 87552 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- config.sys 439 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1 and amended as listed below
- country.sys 24604 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- dos.sys 1142 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- doscall1.dll 87884 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- ea data. sf 3584 RHSA_ Created when os2krnli copied from Installation disk
- harderr.exe 14436 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- ibm1flpy.add 24026 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- ibm1s506.add 12908 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- ibmint13.i13 9564 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- kbd01.sys 29013 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- kbdcalls.dll 858 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- keyboard.dcp 5177 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- moucalls.dll 1010 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- msg.dll 477 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- nampipes.dll 711 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- nls.dll 465 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- os2boot 1099 RHSA_ Created on boot disk by sysinstx
- os2char.dll 56320 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- os2dasd.dmd 31994 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- os2krnl 716044 ___A_ Copy os2krnli from Installation Disk to os2krnl
- os2ldr 32256 ___A_ Copied from Installation Disk
- os2ldr.msg 8440 ___A_ Copied from Installation Disk
- print01.sys 8934 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1 Needed Only if need to print
- quecalls.dll 14994 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- screen01.sys 1441 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- sesmgr.dll 31256 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- sysinst1.exe 4224 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- syslevel.os2 169 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- viocalls.dll 1825 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- 1,227,406 bytes in 36 file(s) 1,234,944 bytes allocated
- 222,720 bytes free
-
- If print01.sys is not included, then the files could be encompassed on
- a 1.2M 5 1/2" floppy.
-
- On a 3 1/2" drive there is sufficient space for chkdsk.com, a modest size
- editor (I use Qedit's Q.exe which is only about 48K) and there is still
- quite a bit of space left over.
-
- <-- Contents of CONFIG.SYS on boot disk -->
- buffers=32
- iopl=yes
- memman=noswap
- protshell=sysinst1.exe
- set os2_shell=cmd.exe
- diskcache=64,LW
- protectonly=yes
- libpath=.;\;
- pauseonerror=no
- codepage=850
- devinfo=kbd,us,keyboard.dcp
- rem devinfo=scr,ega,vtbl850.dcp
- device=\dos.sys
- rem device=\mouse.sys
- set path=.;\
- set dpath=\;
- set keys=on
- rem if you do not need to print from boot disk next below is not needed
- basedev=print01.sys
- basedev=ibm1flpy.add
- basedev=ibm1s506.add
- basedev=ibmint13.i13
- basedev=os2dasd.dmd
- rem device=\testcfg.sys
-
- In case you haven't noticed it you can now include in config.sys a
- command (for example) call=c:\os2\xcopy.exe c:whatever d:whatever
- or what have you. It is very useful to back up the \DESKTOP and
- \os2\*.ini files on the fly. This is noted in the Manual.
-