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Date:	Sun, 6 Oct 2002 19:11:10 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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Thanks J. R.

HCM
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"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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