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Date:	Mon, 7 Oct 2002 17:02:10 PST7
From:	Harry Chris Motin <hmotin@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Utility Diskettes

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In answer to your question, you need to create your own. Every system is
unique. The utility will create your diskettes such that you can boot up
on them, on your system.

I do not own ECS (I use FP15), but I would be really surprised if that
utility is not packaged with the OS. Look in the "OS/2 System\Utility"
folder on your desktop. You should see a program called "Create Utility
Diskettes". You will need your installation CDROM to run the program.

Perhaps someone with ECS can comment on my statements for that utility
packaged with the OS??

HCM
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jizba wrote:
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> Any chance these crash utility diskettes (for eCS) may
> be in the next SCOUG CD?
>
> Harry Chris Motin wrote:
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> > > Did you mean _overwrite_ the first set with the BA2K utility ? I'm confused.
> >
> > Yes. Basically, it's an overwrite. The steps in creating BA2K crash
> > recovery (emergency) diskettes are as follows:
> >
> > 1. Use the OS/2 utility to create bootable diskettes. You have to place
> > your installation CD-ROM in the drive to to this. You get 4 diskettes,
> > labelled DISKETTE 0 thru DISKETTE 3
> >
> > 2. Place the OS/2 bootable diskettes in the A:\ drive, as specified by
> > the BA2K utility, to create the crash recovery diskettes. BA2K refers to
> > the diskettes as DISKETTE 1 thru DISKETTE 4. The BA2K utility will
> > modify some of those diskettes to add the appropriate BA2K drivers and
> > files and update the CONFIG.SYS with the drivers that you are actually
> > using on your system (like Dani's drivers)
> >
> > 3. Using a 5th, blank and formatted diskette, BA2K places the crash
> > recovery program and related files on this diskette.
> >
> > Right now I use the above created diskettes to:
> >
> > A. Perform crash recovery, using a BA2K backup
> >
> > B. Do maintenance work on my system
> >
> > I have 2 complete sets of these diskettes in case one set gets somehow
> > trashed. I had to verify that the diskettes worked properly. At first
> > they did not. Although they successfully booted, they sometimes
> > eventually gave me a trap error somewhere down the line. I discussed
> > that the problem was the audio drivers that the BA2K utility added to
> > the CONFIG.SYS file. I just "REM" out the lines for those drivers and
> > everything is now OK!
> >
> > HCM
> > ______________________________________________________________________________
> > "J. R. Fox" wrote:
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> > > HCM wrote:
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> > > > The bottom line here is that, if you are creating utility boot diskettes, you can get
> > > > enhanced results by:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Selecting the "use newer files on the hard drive" option in the OS/2
> > > > diskette utility
> > > >
> > > > 2. Using the BA2K crash recovery diskette utility on the diskettes you
> > > > created from the OS/2 utility
> > >
> > > Did you mean _overwrite_ the first set with the BA2K utility ? I'm confused.
> > >
> > > I have made various emergency diskette sets over the years, a couple with the OS/2 "4-disk" utility, but mostly 2-disk sets using BOOTOS2. (Which
> > > reminds me -- I really should do this for eCS now.) A couple of these sets worked perfectly, others returned different errors, indicating that some
> > > components (like VDM, Help, or REXX support) were not set up correctly. I'd like to find out what I was doing wrong. (FWIW, the kind of hardware
> > > I've been running has been quite consistent for years.)
> > >
> > > Jordan
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