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Date:	Sat, 3 May 2003 16:13:31 PDT7
From:	sshapiro@ucsd.edu (Sandy Shapiro)
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Boot CD

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In <3EB45383.DBC3FF8E@pacbell.net>, on 05/03/03
at 01:42 PM, "J. R. Fox" said:

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>> >alternative to the cumbersome 4 - 5 IBM Utility Disk set is going to
>> >require getting Hayo Baan's BOOTABLE working on CD.

>Sandy wrote:

>> Make your own bootable CD.
>>
>> Use bootos2 to make a maintenance partition.

>I already have a maintenance partition. Do you mean I need to make
>another, just for this ?

No - just use the files from the one you have.

>> Then copy the essential files to a virtual floppy disk.

>I already have *both* of the virtual floppy program's Hayo specified.

>> Then, using RSJ or the IBM makeimage utility

>I take it you are referring to SAVEDSK ?

NO - It is CDBOOT.EXE or IBM's MAKEIMAGE.EXE

>> make an image of the virtual floppy and copy it to a CD.
>>
>> The CD will boot as drive a:
>> Any additional utilities can be copied to the CD and they will be
>> accessible under a different drive letter.
>>
>> The essential files are referred to in an earlier e-mail of mine. If you
>> can't find it, I will look it up for you.

>That might be easier (unless it is already present in Hayo's
>documentation). My Digest edition of this List has been skipping days
>more than infrequently, so I may never have seen the edition in which
>your post appeared.

Here it is:

http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0700H/vnewsf2.htm

Look particularly at "files list" and "config.sys"

Sandy

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