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Date:	Fri, 2 May 2003 18:31:30 PDT7
From:	"Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com > ,
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: BOOT.OS2 Question...?I

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On Fri, 2 May 2003 07:44:05 PDT7, Steven Levine wrote:

>I can say for sure that this is Jack's problem, but all the diskette
>creation tools are very sensitive to file size changes. Over the years

Steven,

That's a problem only if you select the choice of using the newer files on your hard
drive versus the files on the Warp Installation CD (I'm speaking of the creation of OS/2
utility diskettes (4 diskettes) not the BOOTOS2 procedure). When you create the utility
diskettes you have the option of selecting to use files from your hard drive, or from the
CD. If you use files from the CD (uncheck the "Use files from the disk if they exist"
option) then there is no size problem. If you select to use the hard drive files, most likely
there will be a size problem.

I use the files from the hard drive and I had a size problem, when I first tried it. I
examined the drivers loaded by the CONFIG.SYS file (Diskette 1) and decided what
ones I did not need for my system (I selected maybe 4 or 5 of the largest ones). Then I
temporarily replaced them with 0 size files on my hard drive. I then let the OS/2 utility
create the 4 diskettes. Naturally, it placed 0 size driver files on Diskette 1 and/or 2. I
then edited the CONFIG.SYS to remove the references to these drivers. Finally, I
erased the 0 size drivers from Diskettes 1 and 2.

Lastly, I created a REXX script to automate the entire process.

Something like the above has to be done, if you use the newer driver files on your hard
drive for the OS/2 utility diskettes. I assume that the same is true for the BOOTOS2
diskettes.
HCM

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