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- From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM ("Kenneth A. Kahn")
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: se20boot
- Message-ID: <9209081924.AA21753@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 19:18:06 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- Organization: Staff of IBM Fellow - IBM Personal/370
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- X-X-From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Ken Kahn)
- References: <1992Sep8.185542.16029@mtu.edu>
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- In <1992Sep8.185542.16029@mtu.edu> [*BARK*] writes:
- > I just got back from my vacation so i dunno if this
- >question has been asked. I just downloaded se20boot from
- >hobbes and i tried making the boot disk. I managed to get a
- >"minimal" boot disk without any problem. But when i tried
- >making a WPS or a PM boot disk, se20boot would just give me an
- >error which i believe is because it ran out of space on the floppy
- >disk. The command i typed was "se20boot type=wps". It would first
- >ask me for the Install disk and then for the target_disk. After
- >copying some files over, it would hang when it tried to copy
- >HPFS.IFS. When i checked, HPFS.IFS was about 120K and i had only
- >30K(i think) in my floppy disk(1.44 Meg). I guess i have to tell
- >se20boot that i am installing into multiple disks rite? So how
- >do i go about doing this? Or is it not possible to make a boot
- >disk(WPS and PM) on floppies? Thanx in advance.
- >
-
- As mentioned in the SE20BOOT.ABS file, a TYPE=WPS system requires about 6M
- of disk space. Obviously(?) you can't fit this onto a 1.44" disk. This
- type of BOOT System, as well as TYPE=PM, are meant to be installed on a
- Hard Disk partition (or a *large* removable medium like an Optical Disk).
- I thought about adding a 'quick and dirty' check up front to see if there
- was enough space, but it got a little "complicated" and I decided to leave
- it for a future release.
-