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Date:	Wed, 22 Oct 2003 07:34:55 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: sysinstx ?

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Michael Rakijas wrote:
>
> Just in case it wasn't clear (and it wasn't entirely in my
> reading of this thread), SYSINSTX is to OS/2 is as SYSTEM
> is to DOS. In DOS, if you already had a formatted disk,
> you could issue a SYSTEM X: where X: is the lettered drive
> and the system files would be installed to it in the proper
> location. Most people didn't do that because they did a
> FORMAT /S command which would format and install system
> files in one swell foop.

Rocky, thanks for the clarification and your good memory.

The SYS.COM program in DOS transfers (I think) MSDOS.SYS, IO.SYS (both
hidden) and COMMAND.COM (I never ran DR-DOS or IBM DOS so I don't know
what their names are). SYS.COM didn't transfer the Master Boot Record
(MBR) and you needed to use FORMAT if you wanted an MBR.

So thanks to you I now understand what SYSINSTX does.

- Peter

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