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- From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Kenneth A. Kahn)
- Message-ID: <19921123.092230.741@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 12:00:25 EST
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: .BOOks & BOOTs ...
- Organization: Staff of IBM Fellow - IBM Personal/370
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- X-X-From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Ken Kahn)
- References: <19NOV199214424243@utarlg.uta.edu> <1992Nov21.023411.22945@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In <23NOV199209055777@utarlg.uta.edu> Gordon M. Keegan writes:
- >In article <1992Nov21.023411.22945@midway.uchicago.edu>, sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes...
- >>In article <19NOV199214424243@utarlg.uta.edu> c145gmk@utarlg.uta.edu (Gordon M. Keegan) writes:
- >>> Two questions (non-faq :( ). One fairly straight-forward, one not.
- >>
- >>Actually, Question Two, I think, is addressed in the FAQ List. It
- >>isn't the most convenient method, but it does work (and the FAQ List
- >>is designed to be a baseline reference of sorts).
- >>
- >
- > Sort of. I understand that I can boot, see, the hard disk, and
- > fix it with CHKDSK using the installation disks. The eventual
- > goal is to boot with a pair of floppies that load Novell drivers
- > and a CMD script that will rebuild parts of the drive as needed.
- > Given past experience, we are expecting a high enough number of
- > these cases that we'd like to make the process as automatic as
- > possible. This is the only real dead end we seem to have run
- > into. Any pointers as to what is different on the installation
- > disks would be greatly appreciated.
-
- Look for the BOOT20.ZIP file, available on most BBS and on CIS. Following is
- from the abstract:
-
- The SE20BOOT program is a utility that allows you to build a BOOTable
- OS/2 V2 system using an existing OS/2 V2 system. The BOOT system can be
- installed on any valid medium that OS/2 can BOOT from, including, but not
- limited to, Floppies and Hard Disk Drives.
-
- You can thus use it to create a custom made BOOT Disk. You can then modify
- the disk to include access to your LAN or whatever; you'll probably have to
- expand out to 2 dissk for this but SE20BOOT will do the hard part by creating
- the base BOOT Disk.
-