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- From: enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Trying to create OS/2-Bootable 5.25" Diskette
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:49:32 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University
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- Message-ID: <enk2.88.727991372@po.cwru.edu>
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- Keywords: reboot, boot, bootable, se20boot, boot20, bootdisk.txt
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- In article <C1F7BD.77s@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan) writes:
- >This method may not be proper, but it does work: format the diskette to a
- >higher-capacity, nonstandard format. Using FDFORMAT (available from various
- >anonymous FTP sites), I was able to create a 1.47MB diskette, on which I
- >created my boot diskette. OS/2 is able to boot from such a disk, unlike
- >DOS. Also, when you are prompted for the install diskette in making the
- >boot disk, you can use the boot disk from the CSD. It seems to work also.
-
- Or, if you're running FAT on ANY partition that is reachable from boot,
- put the CMD.EXE and the HPFS.IFS onto the FAT partition and change the
- CONFIG.SYS file on the boot disk to point to THOSE files. Now the data
- will fit on a 1.2.
-