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- From: Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Trying to create OS/2-Bootable 5.25" Diskette
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:16:28 GMT
- Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
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- Message-ID: <Gary.Woodman.939.727924587@anu.edu.au>
- References: <roelle.727715397@uars_mag> <19930123.035953.532@almaden.ibm.com>
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- In article <19930123.035953.532@almaden.ibm.com> KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Kenneth A. Kahn) writes:
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- >In <roelle.727715397@uars_mag> Curtis Roelle writes:
- >>Wanting to create an OS/2-bootable 5.25" 1.2MB floppy, and faced with
- >>several apparent choices for accomplishing that goal, I copied the
- >>following three files from os2-ftp.nmsu.edu:
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- >I'm afraid it can't be done. There's just no room. An *absolute* minimum
- >system is about 1.3M of disk space. If you have a second disk drive, you
- >can get away with it by moving some files to it and then pointing to them
- >in CONFIG.SYS via "B:\"; some of thse files include CMD.EXE, KEYBOARD.DCP,
- >and VTBL850.DCP (I think that's really it).
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- I successfully put UHPFS.DLL on B: (after extending the LIBPATH, of course).
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- >The next release of SE20BOOT
- >will include the ability to build a 2-disk BOOT system that should allow
- >you to do this automatically.
-
- Thank heavens for that! OS/2 is _not_ going to get any smaller...
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