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Date:	Sat, 3 May 2003 21:28:29 PDT7
From:	"Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	"Ray Davison" <raydav@charter.net > ,
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: BOOT.OS2 Question...?I

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On Sat, 3 May 2003 19:39:08 PDT7, Ray Davison wrote:

>I have been using that function on FP15 systems. It chokes on one disk -
>2 or 3 I forget. I just put a clean disk and press enter. It picks up
>where it left off. I then have parts A and B of that disk. They boot
>and never ask for part B.

That isn't happening to me on my system! What is clearly going on is that, when I select
"Use files on the hard drive", the OS/2 utility diskette program stops on Diskette 2 and
tells me that I do not have enough room on the diskette. I cannot get it to continue. On
the other hand, when I don't select the "hard drive" files option, the OS/2 utility runs to
completion, with no problems. However, I get old drivers and the old, Warp 4 original
kernel on the boot diskettes.

I wanted to use the new files on the hard drive. Therefore, I long ago took care of this
problem by automating it with a REXX script (about 3 or 4 years ago). The script:

1. Temporarily replaces 3 or 4 driver files on my hard drive with files of 0
size (these are drivers I don't use)

2. Initiates the OS/2 utility diskette program

3. Modifies the CONFIG.SYS on Diskette 1 to remove references to
those size 0 drivers

4. Erases the 0 size drivers from Diskettes 1 and 2 and replaces the
original driver files on the hard drive

5. Initiates the BA2K create crash recovery diskettes program

6. Removes Crystal audio drivers and Norman Antivirus drivers from the
diskettes (the BA2K program over does it, when it updates files on the diskettes with
newer files and drivers that you are actually using). Removes references to these
drivers from the CONFIG.SYS

7. Adds some OS/2 batch file programs to Diskettes 3 and 4. These files
help me automate the process of running CHKDSK, replacing the OS2*.INI files, the
CONFIG.SYS and/or the desktop files from the diskette bootup
HCM

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