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- OSINDSK3 - CREATING DISKETTES FROM THE OS/2 WARP CD-ROM
- 12/06/94
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- CREATING DISKETTES FROM THE OS/2 WARP CD-ROM
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- Please Read Entire Document for Full Explanation of Procedures
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- Use formatted diskettes for these procedures.
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- Creating Diskettes For CD-ROM Installation
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- To create the 2 "kicker" diskettes for CD-ROM installation:
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- 1. Insert the OS/2 Warp CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive.
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- 2. Change to the CD-ROM drive, type X: and press Enter.
- Where X is the letter assigned to the CD-ROM drive.
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- 3. Type: CDINST and press Enter.
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- You are prompted to insert blank formatted diskettes.
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- 4. When the process is completed, press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
- the system and begin installation of OS/2 Warp.
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- Creating A Full Set of Diskettes from the CD-ROM
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- 1. Insert the OS/2 Warp CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive.
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- 2. Change to the CD-ROM drive, type X: and press Enter.
- Where X is the letter assigned to the CD-ROM drive.
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- 3. Type: MAKEDSKS and press Enter.
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- You are prompted to insert blank formatted diskettes.
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- 4. When the process is completed, reinsert the Installation
- Diskette in the A: drive.
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- 5. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart the system and begin
- installation of OS/2 Warp.
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- XDF - Diskette Image Format
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- XDF is a higher capacity diskette image format for OS/2 WARP
- installation. This reduces the number of diskettes needed for
- installation.
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- Two new files, XDFLOPPY.FLT and XDFCOPY.EXE and the new versions
- of IBM1FLPY.ADD and IBM2FLPY.ADD are needed.
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- Setting Up an OS/2 Imaging Environment
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- You can only use XDF to create disk images if your computer is
- installed with OS/2 2.1 or a later version.
- Only a single imaging session can be used.
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- - For all Systems
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- Copy the XDFCOPY.EXE file from the Install diskette to
- the \OS2 directory.
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- - For ISA-bus Systems and non IBM Micro Channel bus Systems
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- 1. Rename IBM1FLPY.ADD to IBM1FLPY.OLD or
- IBM2FLPY.ADD to IBM2FLPY.OLD in the \OS2 directory.
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- 2. Copy XDFLOPPY.FLT and IBM1FLPY.ADD from diskette 1 to
- the \OS2 directory.
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- 3. Add the following line to your CONFIG.SYS:
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- BASEDEV=XDFLOPPY.FLT
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- 4. For non-IBM Micro Channel bus change the following line
- in your CONFIG.SYS:
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- BASEDEV=IBM2FLPY.ADD
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- to
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- BASEDEV=IBM1FLPY.ADD /MCA
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- NOTE: IBM1FLPY.ADD now supports ISA, EISA, PCI, and
- non-IBM Micro Channel bus systems.
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- - For IBM-Micro Channel-bus Systems
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- 1. Rename IBM2FLPY.ADD to IBM2FLPY.OLD in the \OS2
- directory.
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- 2. Copy XDFLOPPY.FLT and IBM2FLPY.ADD from diskette 1 to
- the \OS2 directory.
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- 3. Add the following line to your CONFIG.SYS:
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- BASEDEV=XDFLOPPY.FLT
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- NOTE: After installation of WARP, or IBM PC
- DOS 6.1, 6.3, these drivers (IBM1FLPY.ADD and
- IBM2FLPY.ADD) will be placed in the OS2\BOOT
- directory.
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- Setting Up an IBM PC-DOS 6.1, 6.3 Imaging Environment
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- Copy the XDFCOPY.EXE from the install diskette to your system.
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- Imaging from an OS/2 2.1 or Higher OR DOS 6.1 or Higher
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- - To make a diskette from image:
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- From the command prompt, type:
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- XDFCOPY IMAGENAME A:
- B:
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- - To make an image from diskette:
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- From the command prompt, type:
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- XDFCOPY A: IMAGENAME
- B:
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- NOTE: XDFCOPY is limited to one OS/2 or DOS command prompt
- session at a time. Starting XDFCOPY under a second
- OS/2 or DOS session hangs the system.
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- Layout of Disk Images
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- - Installation Diskette, Diskette 1
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- These diskette images are not in the XDF format. You can
- add, delete and copy files to these diskettes. The OS/2
- utilities such as COPY, XCOPY, DEL, etc. can be used to
- modify these diskettes.
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- Use the image transfer program (os2image, image, loaddskf,
- etc.) that you currently use to create diskette images of
- these diskettes.
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- - Diskette 2 through Diskette N
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- These diskette images are in the XDF format. You must
- install the XDFCOPY Utility, XDFLOPPY.FLT, and either
- IBM1FLPY.ADD or IBM2FLPY.ADD (depending upon your bus
- type).
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- These diskettes have a software write protection. You
- cannot erase files or bundle files or add files to
- these diskettes. You can only read these diskettes or
- use XDFCOPY to backup these diskettes.
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