said:
Jordan,
My kernel is 14.062.
From somewhere, maybe the RSJ manual, I remember that the location of
lxlite is important.
If you want, I will try to locate the source of that memory and pass it on
to you.
Jack
>> >I want to use BOOT.OS2 to make diskettes to use with BA2K to make up a
>backup system. Must I use floppy installation disks with BOOT.OS2 as
>> >SOURCE. Is there a way to use the eCS CDs?
>Steven replied to Martin:
>> BOOTOS2 get mosts of the files it needs from your installed system. It
>> might be able to find the rest on the eCS CD. The layout is not that much
>> different. If not, just copy the files to a convenient directory and use
>> the source parameter.
>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
>barely negotiate the space limitations of the two 1.44M floppies, the set
>would partially load and then just stop dead. (The last set I made,
>years back and based on the FP-9 level kernel, still works fine, though I
>don't know all the ramifications of continuing to use it today. Maybe
>not the best idea, in view of LVM, etc.) IIRC, you told me you weren't
>100 % sure a latter-day kernel based set on floppies was still possible,
>or that you hadn't managed to make one either . . . ? If you *do* have
>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.
>Meanwhile, Jack Huffman said:
>> When I could not create the five diskette recovery set with Warp 4 Fxpak
>> 15, RSJ help recommended making the recovery diskettes with BOOTOS2. I
>> created the BOOTOS2 recovery diskettes with no problem using 1.45 mb
>> diskettes. There was and still is no IBM2FLPY.ADD in my config.sys.
>What kernel level is this recovery set built on ? I'm glad yours works,
>but I'm betting you don't have those two sizable SCSI drivers on it,
>either. I did not know that BA2K offered a BOOTOS2 diskette option. But
>unless *their* build-it script differs from that of BOOTOS2 itself, I
>would not expect to see a different result here.
>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.
>Jordan
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