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Date:	Fri, 2 May 2003 11:07:43 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: BOOTOS2

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> >I want to use BOOT.OS2 to make diskettes to use with BA2K to make up a
> >backup system. Must I use floppy installation disks with BOOT.OS2 as
> >SOURCE. Is there a way to use the eCS CDs?

Steven replied to Martin:

> BOOTOS2 get mosts of the files it needs from your installed system. It
> might be able to find the rest on the eCS CD. The layout is not that much
> different. If not, just copy the files to a convenient directory and use
> the source parameter.

In an earlier discussion of this, I told you that after a lot of time and effort -- many permutations -- I totally failed at creating a working BOOTOS2 set based on a latter day Warp Kernel. Even where I could just barely negotiate the space
limitations of the two 1.44M floppies, the set would partially load and then just stop dead. (The last set I made, years back and based on the FP-9 level kernel, still works fine, though I don't know all the ramifications of continuing to
use it today. Maybe not the best idea, in view of LVM, etc.) IIRC, you told me you weren't 100 % sure a latter-day kernel based set on floppies was still possible, or that you hadn't managed to make one either . . . ? If you *do* have one
that works -- one that is suitable for an all-SCSI system (I need at least the AIC78U2 driver for my hard drives, the AIC7870 also if I want to be able to operate CD-Rom or tape drive, whick is kinda the whole point of maintenance
operations), I'd definitely like to get disk images of it.

Meanwhile, Jack Huffman said:

> When I could not create the five diskette recovery set with Warp 4 Fxpak
> 15, RSJ help recommended making the recovery diskettes with BOOTOS2. I
> created the BOOTOS2 recovery diskettes with no problem using 1.45 mb
> diskettes. There was and still is no IBM2FLPY.ADD in my config.sys.

What kernel level is this recovery set built on ? I'm glad yours works, but I'm betting you don't have those two sizable SCSI drivers on it, either. I did not know that BA2K offered a BOOTOS2 diskette option. But unless *their* build-it
script differs from that of BOOTOS2 itself, I would not expect to see a different result here.

Unless someone has the magic formula that has eluded me, I think my only alternative to the cumbersome 4 - 5 IBM Utility Disk set is going to require getting Hayo Baan's BOOTABLE working on CD.

Jordan

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