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- Simple Procedure for Preparing a Bootable OS/2 2.1 Diskette
-
- 93/06/13
-
- By: Al York EMAIL: alan_york@mindlink.bc.ca
- COMPUSERVE: 72301,3335
-
-
- The method of making a bootable OS/2 diskette has changed
- slightly from OS/2 2.0 to OS/2 2.1. This is for the GA version
- using FAT file system on an ISA bus computer. Your computer
- must have a 1.44 meg 3.5" diskette drive as drive A: in order to boot
- this diskette.
-
- I'm sure that minor improvements can be made to this procedure.
- Please send any suggestions to me and I'll re-distribute them.
-
- The diskette is a 1.44 meg 3.5 inch. There is barely enough
- room for the basic OS/2 system plus CHKDSK and a couple of other
- small programs.
-
- During boot, error messages will be seen about file OSO001.MSG
- missing. These can be ignored. There is not enough room on the
- diskette for this file and it seems to work OK without it.
-
-
- 1. Create a directory on your hard drive. Example: MD
- C:\MAKEBOOT
-
-
- 2. Copy these files from the OS/2 2.1 INSTALLATION diskette into
- the MAKEBOOT directory.:
-
- OS2DUMP
- OS2KRNLI
- OS2LDR
- OS2LDR.MSG
- OS2VER
- SYSINSTX.COM
-
-
- 3. Create a CONFIG.SYS with these entries. Feel free to make
- any changes to improve the CONFIG.SYS for your situation.
-
- BUFFERS=32
- IOPL=YES
- MEMMAN=NOSWAP
- PROTSHELL=CMD.EXE
- SET OS2_SHELL=CMD.EXE
- DISKCACHE=64,LW
- BREAK=ON
- PROTECTONLY=YES
- LIBPATH=.;\
- PAUSEONERROR=NO
- DEVICE=\DOS.SYS
- SET PATH=.;\
- SET DPATH=.;\
- SET PROMPT=$i[$p]
- SET KEYS=ON
- BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS
- BASEDEV=IBM1FLPY.ADD
- BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD
- BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD
- CODEPAGE=437,850
- DEVINFO=KBD,US,KEYBOARD.DCP
-
-
- 4. Create the following MAKEBOOT.CMD
-
- cls
- echo Build OS/2 Bootable Diskette
- pause
- format a:
- sysinstx a:
- copy os2*.* a:
- rename a:os2krnli os2krnl
- copy CONFIG.SYS a:
- copy c:\os2\dll\ANSICALL.DLL a:
- copy c:\os2\dll\BKSCALLS.DLL a:
- copy c:\os2\dll\BMSCALLS.DLL a:
- copy c:\os2\dll\BVHINIT.DLL a:
- copy c:\os2\dll\BVSCALLS.DLL a:
- copy c:\os2\dll\DOSCALL1.DLL a:
- copy c:\os2\dll\KBDCALLS.DLL a:
- copy c:\os2\dll\MSG.DLL a:
- copy c:\os2\dll\NAMPIPES.DLL a:
- copy c:\os2\dll\NLS.DLL a:
- copy c:\os2\dll\OS2CHAR.DLL a:
- copy c:\os2\dll\QUECALLS.DLL a:
- copy c:\os2\dll\VIOCALLS.DLL a:
- copy c:\os2\dll\SESMGR.DLL a:
- copy c:\os2\system\COUNTRY.SYS a:
- copy c:\os2\system\HARDERR.EXE a:
- copy c:\os2\CLOCK01.SYS a:
- copy c:\os2\CMD.EXE a:
- copy c:\os2\IBM1FLPY.ADD a:
- copy c:\os2\IBM1S506.ADD a:
- copy c:\os2\KBD01.SYS a:
- copy c:\os2\OS2DASD.DMD a:
- copy c:\os2\PRINT01.SYS a:
- copy c:\os2\SCREEN01.SYS a:
- copy c:\os2\DOS.SYS a:
- copy c:\os2\CHKDSK.COM a:
- copy c:\os2\attrib.exe a:
- copy c:\os2\format.com a:
-
-
- 5. Insert a blank 1.44 3.5 " diskette in drive A: and run
- MAKEBOOT.
-
- 6. Shutdown OS/2 and boot from drive A:.
-