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- From: shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter)
- Subject: New OS/2 Red Book: Remote Installation and Maintenance
- Message-ID: <Bs9r4p.MKJ@well.sf.ca.us>
- Summary: Part number GG24-3780-00
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 19:50:49 GMT
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- Title: OS/2 Version 2.0 Remote Installation and Maintenance
- Part number GG24-3780-00
-
- Contents:
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- Abstract
- Special Notices
- Preface
- Related Publications
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. Overview
- Chapter 2. Redirected Input/Output and Response Files
- Chapter 3. Installation Guidelines
- Chapter 4. Remote Installation Utilities
- Chapter 5. IBM LAN Client/Server Solution
- Chapter 6. TCP/IP Client/Server Solution
- Chapter 7. Novell Netware Client/Server Solution
- Chapter 8. Alternative Methods to Install OS/2 V2.0 Remotely
- Chapter 9. OS/2 V2.0 System Maintenance
- Appendix A. Response File Keyword Reference, Samples And Details
- Appendix B. Installation Log
- Appendix C. Partitioning of Physical Disks
- Appendix D. Description of FDISK functions
- Appendix E. FDISK Command Reference
- Appendix F. Automating Fixed Disk Partitioning
- Appendix G. Printer Response File Keyword Definition and Sample
- Appendix H. Source Code for Remote Printer Installation Program
- Appendix I. The Create Environment Variable Program Description
- Appendix J. Sample Installation Code Diskette
- Glossary
- Index
-
- A diskette with programs, C source code, sample scripts and REXX
- programs is included. Additional installation utilities come on the
- original GA disks but are not necessarily installed in a standard
- install and need to be unpacked.
-
- As an OS/2 OEM, the coolest thing for me about this is that, with a
- network adapter that plugs into a parallel port, one can just take two
- floppies and a virgin machine and squirt the entire OS in through the
- parallel port with virtually no labor (just one floppy change).
-
- The book concentrates on network software available from IBM (such as
- TCP/IP 1.2). FTP and other network providers should get a copy of this
- so that they can provide their customers with similar information.
-
- One of the most interesting suggestions in the book is to create a small
- 4Mb partition to put a minimal seed OS/2 on that can be used to boot
- from for maintenance purposes (such as when upgrading an installation or
- backing up otherwise locked system files).
-
- Meanwhile, can an IBM'er tell me how to clear adequate space to put an
- additional 425k of network stuff (apparently the minimum required to get
- FTP TCP/IP 1.2 to mount a network directory) on the two install disks?
- It appears that even after deleting the obvious unnecessary files (PS/2
- drivers for non-PS/2 installation and vice-versa) there's only about
- 325k left. From inspection of the installation CONFIG.SYS, there appear
- to be several drivers which do not appear on the disks, and I must
- conclude that they are somehow loaded into a RAM disk by the OS loader
- process from some compressed source (perhaps all of the .BIO files?).
- Perhaps I can create my own disk image with the unnecessary drivers
- replaced by the ones that I need?
-
-