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Date:	Fri, 2 May 2003 12:18:41 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: BOOTOS2

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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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REM CONFIG.SYS Drive A/B boot recovery
REM Some support for ZtBold/BA2K

PROTSHELL=\OS2\BOS2SHL.EXE

SET OS2_SHELL=B:\OS2\CMD.EXE

SET COMSPEC=B:\OS2\CMD.EXE

MEMMAN=NOSWAP,PROTECT
CODEPAGE=850
DEVINFO=KBD,US,\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP
DEVINFO=SCR,EGA,\OS2\VTBL850.DCP
LIBPATH=.;A:\OS2\DLL;B:\OS2\DLL;
SET PATH=A:\OS2;B:\OS2;A:\ZTBOLD;
SET DPATH=A:\OS2;B:\OS2;A:\ZTBOLD;

SET PROMPT=[$p]
BUFFERS=30
IOPL=YES

SET KEYS=ON
DISKCACHE=D,LW
DEVICE=\OS2\TESTCFG.SYS
BASEDEV=IBMKBD.SYS

BASEDEV=IBM1FLPY.ADD

BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD

rem BASEDEV=OS2SCSI.DMD

BASEDEV=OS2ASPI.DMD

BASEDEV=AIC7870.ADD

IFS=B:\OS2\HPFS.IFS /CACHE:64 /AUTOCHECK:F

DEVICE=\OS2\OS2CDROM.DMD
IFS=\OS2\CDFS.IFS /V

DEVICE=\OS2\POINTDD.SYS
DEVICE=\OS2\MOUSE.SYS

REM *** Back Again/2000 Tape Support (BA2K)
rem BASEDEV=CDSTAP2.DMD

REM The end

[d:\tmp]dir /hm a:\ /s

Volume in drive A is BOOTOS2_1 Serial number is 075C:4C05
Directory of a:\*

OS2