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Date:	Tue, 2 Jul 2002 11:22:55 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Maintenance Partition | BOOTOS2

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Peter wrote:

"There's a utility called BOOTOS2 which can make a tiny (10 MB) OS/2
Maintenance partition by stripping out the stuff you don't absolutely
need (fonts etc), ... "

Not relevant to your reply to Butch, but they stopped developing this
a while back. I was sorry to learn it had been taken off-the-table as
an option for ECS or MCP, because it could not provide support for
LVM, and maybe for some other things after a certain kernel level.
(Of course, there would still be that built-in IBM utility for making
a multi-diskette boot set, but it was really clunky in comparison,
placing a whole lotta stuff on the diskettes that most people don't
need.) I agree with you that it's much better to have your "main"
Maintenance partition residing on the hard drive, but you probably
don't want to give up any ability to boot from floppies, if needed.
In my experience, there _are_ always certain circumstances where this
becomes essential. Anyway, I noticed something on one of the ECS
cd's, now called BOOTECS, which makes me wonder if someone did not
step up and address the above-mentioned issues ?

" . . . but when I'm on a deadline and something goes wrong I don't
want to have to stop and fix my Production OS/2 partition, I just boot
to my Maintenance partition and finish my work, then when I have time
I go back and fix the Production partition. I can't do that with the
minimal BOOTOS2 version of a Maintenance partition, and I can't do
that with a floppy boot either."

This sounds like another vote for my longstanding practice of having
the Maintenance partition be one that is very well equipped, compared
to the very spartan "textbook" model. One certainly does not need to
have a duplicate of _everything_ that is available in the production
partition, just anything one might have a real need for
(diagnostic/troubleshooting stuff, file mgr., preferred word
processor, full 'Net access, etc.) or really want by way of
redundancy. btw, I think that having a Maint. partition is every bit
as critical over on that *other* platform.

Jordan

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