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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
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- Subject: Re: How to use se20boot & UNDELETE ??
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.181232.20583@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 18:12:32 GMT
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- In article <2AB4B04B.59@tct.com> paul@tct.com (Paul Levin) writes:
- >I have two 'how to' questions, so I put them together into this one post.
- >
- >1) There is a shareware OS/2 application called se20boot, which is
- > supposed to make OS/2 bootable disk. I have the se20boot.zoo file
- > with the following contents.
-
- [contents deleted -- Dave]
-
- > Note that there is no documentation. I want to make a bootable
- > floppy on my A: drive. How is this done. I started to run
- > se20boot.exe from an OS/2 command line, and it asked me to insert my
- > installation disk 0. WHY ?? It should not need my installation diskettes
- > when I'm running it on a OS/2 system on the harddisk. Besides the
- > destination is the A: drive. How does this program work ??
-
- Just format a blank floppy and run se20boot. The disk needs three
- files from your install disks. They aren't in your installation.
-
- PS: The se20boot.abs file is your documentation. Read it.
-
- >2) OS/2 documents an UNDELETE command and an associated DELDIR setting
- > in config.sys. The installation put a DELDIR line in my config.sys
- > commented out (with REM). I removed the REM and created the directory
- > mentioned (C:\DELETE). I rebooted, and then removed a file. Nothing
- > was in the c:\delete directory (the on-line documentation says my file
- > should have been copied there). I ran UNDELETE which said that the
- > the facility was not enabled (I don't recall the exact error message).
- > DOES THIS FEATURE WORK ?? AND HOW ??
-
- A few things. First of all, this only works on hard drives. This
- Undelete feature does nothing for floppies. Second, you won't see
- anything in the delete directory, since the files are all hidden.
- --
- |) David Charlap "LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket,
- /|_ dic5340@hertz.njit.edu his tongue in your ear, and his faith in your
- ((|,) patience."
- ~|~ --- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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