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- (C) Copyright IBM Corp. 1992
-
- The SE20BOOT program is a utility that allows you to build a BOOTable OS/2 V2
- system using an existing OS/2 V2 system. The BOOT system can be installed on
- any valid medium including, but not limited to, Floppies and Hard Disk Drives.
- There are three types of BOOT systems you can install:
-
- Minimal : This is a basic OS/2 V2 system that supports a single OS/2 Full
- Screen screen session. All 16 and 32-bit OS/2 Full Screen
- applications are supported. While multitasking is supported, the
- ability to switch between different processes is not. This BOOT
- system requires about 1.36M of disk space.
-
- PM : This is an OS/2 V2 system that supports any 16 or 32-bit OS/2 Full
- Screen or PM application. Multitasking is supported, as is the
- ability to switch betwen different processes. The WPS is present
- as a single OS/2 Window. This BOOT system requires about 5.6M of
- disk space.
-
- WPS : This is an OS/2 V2 system that supports any 16 or 32-bit OS/2 Full
- Screen or PM application. Multitasking is supported, as is the
- ability to switch betwen different processes. The OS/2 WPS is
- fully active and starts up with a number of default Folders and
- system objects. This BOOT system requires about 6M of disk space.
-
- NOTE: When a TYPE=WPS system is started, you will probably get an
- error message (SYS0002) stating that a file could not be
- found. The file OS/2 can't find is WPPRINT.DLL, which is
- about 500K big and not 'required' by the BOOT system.
-
- Syntax: SE20BOOT <SOURCE=drive:\path\> <TARGET=drive> <TYPE=PM|WPS>
-
- SOURCE= Normally SE20BOOT will prompt you for the first two
- OS/2 V2 Install Disks (Disk 0 and Disk 1) so it can
- copy over certain system files; KEYBOARD.DCP,
- VTBL850.DCP and SYSINSTX.COM. If you installed OS/2 V2
- from a LAN or equivalent redirected source, you can use
- the SOURCE argument to point to the base directory of the
- redirected directory structure. SE20BOOT will then look
- for the following directories:
-
- drive:\path\DISK_0\
- drive:\path\DISK_1\
-
- TARGET= By default, SE20BOOT will install the BOOT system on a
- floppy disk in your A: drive. You can use the TARGET=
- argument to specify an alternate Drive to install the
- BOOT system on. This alternate drive can be another
- floppy or a Hard Disk Drive. The value for TARGET drive
- is a single Drive letter; A .. Z
-
- TYPE=PM SE20BOOT will install a BOOT System that will support
- PM Applications. The BOOT System will be accessed as
- a single OS/2 Windowed Command Prompt.
-
- TYPE=WPS SE20BOOT will install a BOOT system that will support
- PM Applications. The BOOT System will be accessed
- using the OS/2 WorkPlace Shell (WPS).
-
- You must run SE20BOOT from an existing OS/2 V2 system. The SE20BOOT program
- will analyze your system and create a BOOT system that is specific for it. For
- example it will determine if your system supports features such as HPFS or SCSI
- and add the appropriate support for it. Because of this, a BOOT disk created
- for a specific workstation will not necessarily work correctly on a different
- workstation.
-
- If you install the BOOT system on a Hard Disk Drive, you'll probably want to
- also install the OS/2 BOOT Manager and add the BOOT system to it.
-
- Please note that the BOOT system installed with this release of SE20BOOT does
- not support either DOS or Windows. A future release of the program might do so
- if enough users want it (and I figure out how).
-
- The file SE20BOOT.ZIP contains the following files:
-
- SE20BOOT.EXE * The OS/2 BOOT System Create Utilty
- SE20BOOT.ABS * A brief description of SE20BOOT.EXE and how to use it
- SEB_USER.INI * User INI file needed for TYPE=PM and TYPE=WPS
- SEB_SYS.INI * System INI file needed for TYPE=PM and TYPE=WPS
- LICENSE.TXT * IBM License Agreement
-
- NOTE: The .INI files must be placed on the same directory as SE20BOOT.EXE
-
- Kennneth A. Kahn, IBM Poughkeepsie N.Y.