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- From: limpe@sumax.seattleu.edu (Philipp Enrique T. Lim)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: se20boot
- Message-ID: <5012@sumax.seattleu.edu>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 23:41:30 GMT
- References: <9209081924.AA21753@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Organization: Seattle University, Seattle, WA
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- From article <9209081924.AA21753@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, by KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM ("Kenneth A. Kahn"):
- > Organization: Staff of IBM Fellow - IBM Personal/370
- > Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
- > News-Software: UReply 3.0
- > X-X-From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Ken Kahn)
- > References: <1992Sep8.185542.16029@mtu.edu>
- >
- > 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.
-
- Now that we're in the topic of se20boot or merely the process of making
- a bootable OS/2 disk - I am curious, why do we need the install disk?
- It's obviously a pain to be swapping disks on such a process. Surely,
- there should be a way where some of the install disks contents that are
- not already on the hard disk, could be copied to the hard disk - so that
- whenever se20boot or some similar program is invoked, it would
- merely look for the required files from the HD, not the installation disk.
-
- Is this impossible? I'm curious, since no one has attempted this (as to
- my knowledge, anyways).
-
- Philip
- limpe@seattleu.edu
-
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