OS/2 comes with the Create Utility Diskettes program in the System Setup
folder. I would like to do the equivalent with a CD, which offers much
faster booting than diskettes and no swapping of media. Booting from the
MCP2 installation CD isn't an option, because it doesn't have the right
kernel to deal with a system having 2 GB of memory. I've tried to find
information on how to do it, but what I've found seems to differ from
what I want in one way or another. I don't want to boot to the desktop,
which makes it look like the full system is running. I want to avoid
"mounting" the JFS partitions so that a proper CHKDSK can be run on them.
Basically I'd like to treat the bootable CD as a maintenance partition,
pretty much giving me the same basic capabilities as the Utility Diskettes.
Can somebody point me in the right direction to some instructions?

Several Articles on VOICE detail such a process. Run this:
http://www.os2voice.org/vnl/past_iss...H/vnewsf2b.htm

Also DFSee now comes 6.07 in a bootable CD version that is very convenient.

These two spring to mind. And RSJ has some option to make bootable CD.
Matt


On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 22:41:49 GMT, tholen@antispam.ham wrote:


Matt Walsh El Paso, TX
OS/2 Outpost....................
Computin' & Shootin in the dust.................

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 22:41:49 UTC, tholen@antispam.ham wrote:

Try:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~hrbaan/

Hope this helps...
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On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 22:41:49 GMT, tholen@antispam.ham wrote:

I have a great set of boot cd:s for OS/2 which are crafted to suite different
systems. To create them, I started with the "updated installation diskettes"
found on DDPak online. Then I wrote various scripts and downloaded utilities
and drivers to build the updated diskettes.

Essentially you need:
- TVFS
- a virtual diskette (mounts to RAM)
- mkisofs & cdrecord
- loaddskf/savedskf
- some form of cd-boot filter driver (cd_boot.flt or Dani's).

Let me know if you are interrested in the scripts.

You'll need to build the images "by hand", but my scripts will eliminate some
of the mundane tasks.


/j

tholen@antispam.ham wrote:
I used it to do the same thing that you are wanting to do.
Efrem
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