Question:

I've got a BackAgain 2000 problem. When I try to restore a single file to the root of my boot drive, BA2K complains that it can not write the file. Full restores work fine. I've got v4.10. What's going on?

Answer:

The programmers goofed. Let's say your boot drive is C: and you try to restore CONFIG.SYS using the default options. BA2K tries to write to

  C:\\CONFIG.SYS

  Options -> Restore Path -> Restore to specified location

Question:

Hi, me again. I cannot get BAIICR to run from my BOOTOS2 maintenance partition. The partition boots fine, but when I try to start BAIICR, the disk LED flashes a couple of times and then the command line prompt returns. Popuplog.os2 reports a trap at BAIIOM3.DLL 0001:00000071. I tried to run BAIICR from my emergency restore diskettes and they have the same problem.

Answer:

The programmers goofed again. The version of BAIICR delivered by CDS (now Intradyn) requires an installed TCP/IP stack to run.

To get BAIICR to run, you will need to install a minimal TCP/IP stack on your maintenance partition. This is not difficult. If you really need to, you can install the minimal TCP/IP stack to your emergency boot diskettes, but getting the right files on the right diskette will take a bit of work. If possible, Mr. KIA recommends that you build a bootable CD. Otherwise, contact Mr. KIA for assistance.

To add the required TCP/IP stack to your maintenance partition, create a directory to hold the TCP/IP files. Mr. KIA suggests

 \OS2\TCPIP

Copy the following files to this directory from your boot partition:

  afinet.sys
  afos2.sys
  cntrl.exe
  dde4.msg
  lanmsgdd.os2
  lanmsgdl.dll
  lanmsgex.exe
  lt0.msg
  nullndis.os2
  pro.msg
  protman.os2
  protocol.ini
  so32dll.dll
  sockets.sys
  tcp32dll.dll
  tcpip32.dll

Edit protocol.ini to read:

[PROT_MAN]

   DRIVERNAME = PROTMAN$

[IBMLXCFG]

   tcpip_nif = tcpip.nif
   nulndis = nulndis.nif

[tcpip_nif]

   DriverName = TCPIP$
   Bindings = nulndis

[nulndis]

   DriverName = NULLNDS$

Add the following to the end of CONFIG.SYS:

rem *** Start of Thinlaps for BAIICR ***
run = \os2\tcpip\lanmsgex.exe
device = \os2\\tcpip\lanmsgdd.os2
device = \os2\tcpip\protman.os2 /I:\os2\tcpip
device = \os2\tcpip\sockets.sys
device = \os2\tcpip\afinet.sys
run = \os2\tcpip\cntrl.exe
device = \os2\tcpip\nullndis.os2
rem *** End of ThinLAPS for BAIICR ***

If this seems like too much work, you might want to consider using Hayo Baan's bootAble to rebuild your maintainance partition with TCP/IP support.

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