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- Morton F. Kaplon CompuServe ID 73457,437 Wed 05-13-1992
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- Creating a Boot Disk for a 1.2M Floppy using FAT file system
-
- The listing below contains the rock bottom minimum I have been
- able to achieve and still boot from the from A: drive using the
- FAT file system and a 3 1/2 " Drive. The total file size should
- fit on a 1.2M floppy. With the list of files below and the accompanying
- CONFIG.SYS file you should be able to create a bootable 1.2M floppy.
-
- The procedure has changed from the Beta Versions. The Installation disk has
- SYSINSTX.COM on it as well as OS2KRNLI, OS2LDR, OS2LDR.MSG and a lot of
- other files which are not needed. Copy SYSINSTX.COM to your C: drive
- and from there give the command "SYSINSTX A:", where you have a formatted
- hi density disk in A:. All SYSINSTX does is copy the hidden file OS2BOOT
- to the A: drive. The other three OS2*.* files on the installation disk are
- not hidden and you can copy them to a: via C: or by whatever means you want.
- It is important to rename OS2KRNLI to OS2KRNL on the boot disk being created.
-
- The rest of the required files are all on Disk 1 of the Installation Set
- and they are listed below. There are a number of files with the numeral 1
- in their names. These files are for a CLONE. If you have a PS-2 machine
- there is a corresponding set, also on Disk 1 which have a 2 in place of the
- 1. Use those. If you have a PS-2 you MAY(??)) also need to copy the file
- ABIOS.SYS which is on Disk 1 also. On Disk 1 there is a file named OS2SCSI.DMD
- which is not listed below. That is presumably their generic driver for SCSI
- drives and MAY BE needed for those with that kind of hard drive, and
- for which there should be a corrsponding statement in config.sys.
-
-
- My system is a Gateway 2000 33 MHZ 386. Using the list below you will
- not be able to print. The file to do that is PRINT01.SYS and there should
- be a corresponding BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS in CONFIG.SYS. It will be a tight
- fit if it fits at all.
- .
- I have heard from one or 2 users that the file (not listed) NPXEMLTR.DLL
- seems to be required to boot on their systems. It definitely is not
- required on my system. With the list below I do not get any error messages
- when I boot from the floppy.
-
- Since the main point of having a single bootable floppy is to be able
- to do CHKDSK C: /F or CHKDSK D: /F on you hard drives it would appear
- the game is still lost.
-
- HOWEVER if you have at least 2 logical hard drives, you can copy
- C:\OS2\CHKDSK.COM to another hard drive and then do from A:
- D:CHKDSK C: /F
- and
- C:\OS2\CHKDSK D: /F
- etc.
-
- If you do not have a d:drive but do have another floppy, then just keep a
- copy of CHKDSK.COM on that floppy along with any other desireable files.
-
-
- Volume in drive A is DISK 0 Serial number is A4D6:CC14
- Directory of a:\*.*
- <----------- Where Located ------------->
- bkscalls.dll 401 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- bmscalls.dll 398 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- bvhinit.dll 9203 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- bvscalls.dll 454 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- clock01.sys 3666 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- cmd.exe 87552 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- config.sys 273 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1 and amended as listed below
- country.sys 24604 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- dos.sys 1142 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- doscall1.dll 87884 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- ea data. sf 3584 RHSA_ Created when os2krnli copied from Installation disk
- harderr.exe 14436 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- ibm1flpy.add 24026 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- ibm1s506.add 12908 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- kbd01.sys 29013 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- kbdcalls.dll 858 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- moucalls.dll 1010 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- msg.dll 477 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- nampipes.dll 711 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- nls.dll 465 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- os2boot 1099 RHSA_ Created on boot disk by sysinstx
- os2char.dll 56320 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- os2dasd.dmd 31994 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- os2krnl 716044 ___A_ Copy os2krnli from Installation Disk to os2krnl
- os2ldr 32256 ___A_ Copied from Installation Disk
- os2ldr.msg 8440 ___A_ Copied from Installation Disk
- quecalls.dll 14994 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- screen01.sys 1441 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- sesmgr.dll 31256 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- sysinst1.exe 4224 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- viocalls.dll 1825 ___A_ Copied From Disk 1
- 1,202,958 bytes in 31 file(s) 1,209,344 bytes allocated
- 248,320 bytes free
-
-
- <----- A:CONFIG.SYS ----->
-
- buffers=32
- iopl=yes
- memman=noswap
- protshell=sysinst1.exe
- set os2_shell=cmd.exe
- diskcache=64,LW
- protectonly=yes
- libpath=.;\;
- pauseonerror=yes
- device=\dos.sys
- set path=\;\
- set dpath=\;
- set keys=on
- basedev=ibm1flpy.add
- basedev=ibm1s506.add
- basedev=os2dasd.dmd
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-