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- From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM ("Kenneth A. Kahn")
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: se20boot
- Message-ID: <9209100256.AA21726@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 02:49:43 GMT
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- In <5012@sumax.seattleu.edu> Philipp Enrique T. Lim writes:
- >
- >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).
- >
-
- It's been brought to my attention that my previous response was incorrect.
- I misread what you were asking. If you are asking why SE20BOOT requires
- the Install Disks, the answer is it doesn't. What it needs is the file
- SYSINSTX.COM from Disk 0 (to create the OS/2 BOOT Record) and the two *.DCP
- files from Disk 1 (VTBL850.DCP and KEYBOARD.DCP). The two *.DCP files from
- the Install disks are used instead of the ones from the active OS/2 V2 system
- because of their size; the ones from the active system won't fit on the 1.44"
- disk.
-
- Instead of getting them from the Install Disks, you can use the SOURCE=
- argument when invoking SE20BOOT to specify where to find the files. The
- value of SOURCE= is a subdirectory structure as follows:
-
- drive:\path\DISK_0
- drive:\path\DISK_1
-
- The directories DISK_0 and DISK_1 are created by using XCOPY to copy over
- the corresponding Install Disks. You would then specify SOURCE=drive:\path
- when invoking SE20BOOT and it will look there for the required files instead
- of prompting you to insert the Install Disks.
-
- This subdirectory structure is defined by the redirection function of the
- OS/2 V2 Install Process. The drive: can be a LAN Server or another Hard
- Disk Drive. The SOURCE= argument is documented in the SE20BOOT.ABS file.
-
- When installing a BOOT System to a Hard Disk Drive (TYPE=PM or TYPE=WPS),
- SE20BOOT will get the *.DCP files from the active system since there is now
- enough room for them. It still needs SYSINSTX.COM however.
-