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Date:	Fri, 2 May 2003 20:03:41 PDT7
From:	jack.huffman@worldnet.att.net
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: BOOTOS2

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In , on 05/02/2003
at 12:18 PM, "Steven Levine" said:

Steven,

Where is Hayo Baan's BOOTABLE? Or should I use my friend Google?

Jack

Where is
>In <3EB2DE23.F2E3F043@pacbell.net>, on 05/02/03
> at 11:07 AM, "J. R. Fox" said:

>>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

>I recall this dimly. :-)

>>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.

>That's going to be a tough fit. I've got a working A:, B: set that uses
>the 14.085 kernel and and AIC7870.ADD. The config.sys is appended along
>with the A: file list. Unfortunately, there's no room for the U2 driver
>on the first diskette and it must be there.

>However, unless you have a compelling reason to use a newer kernel why
>bother? I have a hard time believing that an older kernel will not work
>just as well in this case.

>>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.

>That's my plan. I see not reason for maintaining diskettes when a CD
>will work just as well. I need to spend some time getting my setup
>tweaking so that I can build the CDs with CDRecord.

>Steven

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