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Date:	Sun, 30 Jun 2002 14:37:10 PST7
From:	Harry Chris Motin <hmotin@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Basic help

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Hi,

May I make a suggestion to everyone. Since Butch is new, lets not over
load him with a butch of different things. My suggestion: Let him
install OS/2 from the original 3 diskettes (labelled Installation
Diskette, Diskette 1 and Diskette 2) and the 1 CD-ROM. That way, it will
be fairly simple and if, there are any problems, we will all be on the
same page in giving him help.

Later on, if he wants to, he can upgrade his installation diskettes
and/or the OS with the fixpaks.

I have my original Warp 4 installation here and the diskettes are
labelled as: Installation Diskette, Diskette 1 and Diskette 2. This
morning before church I started the installation, using those diskettes,
just to
see (remember) how it works. You have to use all 3 diskettes, the
Installation Diskette first, then Diskette 1 then Diskette 2. That takes
you to FDISK.

Use FDISK to partition your system into a Boot Manager at 7MB (you do
not have to do this, but I recommend it), a C:\ drive <= 8001 MB and
anything else you want at >= 5GB = 5000MB. You do not have make 3 or
more working partitions, if you do not want. Instead, you could have,
for example:

Name Status Access FS Type MBytes

Boot Manager Startable Primary Partition 7MB
C: Bootable Primary Partition 8001MB
Unused None 5000MB

(When you finish with the FDISK it will read something like the above)

Or, you could have any number of active partitions after C:\. However,
your C:\
partition, the one in which you install the OS must be bootable. In
order for that to happen, it must be <= 8001 MB

When you are in FDISK you press the ENTER key to select the option for
each partition that you wish to establish

I think Peter is right. The IBM IDE driver with the Warp 4 installation
may
not allow for 8GB partition sizes. I don't remember. I think you may
have to just try it and see.

If you stick to the original installation diskettes and CD-ROM you
probably will not have to change anything in the CONFIG.SYS file. It
will probably install painlessly and without any problems. You can
upgrade your system later.

The CONFIG.SYS file is on Diskette 1. If you have to edit it, you use an
ASCII file editor. Probably, the easiest thing to do is to take the
diskette to another computer and edit it there in an editor that you
know how to use.

However, you can use the program, TEDIT.EXE, which is on Diskette 2. I
cannot help you out very much with TEDIT.EXE, because I never took the
time to learn it. I know the following: Go to a command prompt by
booting from all 3 diskettes. After completion of the loading of the
programs on Diskette 1, follow the instructions to get to an OS/2
command prompt (I forget what it says). At the command prompt type
"tedit". When the editor comes up, you can press F1 to get the editor's
help menu. You type in your commands and/or what you want the editor to
do in the aqua colored command line near the bottom of the editor
screen. To open the CONFIG.SYS for editing, put Diskette 1 in the drive
and type "E A:\CONFIG.SYS" on the aqua commandline. That's about it for
TEDIT.EXE.

After you finish with FDISK, partitioning your hard drive you will have
to reboot from the 3 diskettes. The installation program will then
instruct you on formatting the partitions that you set up. After
formatting, the installation will continue, eventually taking you to the
CD-ROM.

Usually, the installation goes without a hitch. If there is one, usually
it can be easily fixed by editing the CONFIG.SYS file on Diskette 1
and/or editing the SNOOP.LST file, again on Diskette 1. Sometimes the
system will hang during the installation because of one or more bad
listing in SNOOP.LST. If that occurs, I can help you edit it.

If you are concerned about whether or not the original IBM IDE driver
file (IBM1S506.ADD on Diskette 1) will work with a 8001 MB partition,
you can change it out by substituting Daniella Egbert's better IDE
driver, DANIS506.ADD. Or, you can use a later version of the IBM driver
that does support > 8GB partitions. Attached please find the latest
versions of both drivers. If you use Daniella's driver, rem out the
IBMIS506.ADD callout in the CONFIG.SYS on Diskette 1 and add a line for
Daniella's driver, as follows:

REM BASEDEV=IBMIS506.ADD
BASEDEV=DANIS506.ADD

Then, make a copy of Diskette 1 and substitute the DANIS506.ADD driver
for the IBMIS506.ADD driver on the diskette. Use the copy of Diskette 1
in your OS installation.

Good Luck

HCMotin
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Butch Langel wrote:
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> Svobi,
> Please run by me again, if you don't mind, how to change the config.sys.
> That is how, when and where to do it?
> I understand the change is needed to tell the system to be set from floppies
> and not from the obsolete cd stuff.
> When do I make that change? Where ? On the two floppies exe that was
> created to replace the original 2 install floppies?
> How is it done?
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