user documentation            demo.cmd                    Veit Kannegieser


Make a bootable OS/2 CD/floppy/hard disk partition

The script will build the needed files from a running
OS/2 (4.0 with fixpack or 4.5+) system.

Could be used for
- build single 1.4M OS/2 boot floppy
- make backup/repair/restore cd-rom or partition

This is a simple demonstration!
-no psd
-no abios
-no usb
-no card services
-no mouse
-no rexx
-no pm/tshell
-no fat32/ntfs/ext2/udf/rsj/...
-no network
-no backup program

Other similar packages and documentation are

- create service diskettes (system folder)
  you get problems when having too many large driver files

- UpdCD (Zsolt Kadar)
  http://xenia.sote.hu/~kadzsol/rexx/sajat/updcd.htm
  create install cd with fixpack and extras already applied

- Boot Able (Hayo Baan)
  http://www.xs4all.nl/~hrbaan

- Making a bootable CD (Alfredo Fernandez-Diaz)
  http://www.os2ezine.com/20031116/page_6.html

- BOOTOS2 OS/2 V2 BOOT System Create Utility (IBM EWS)

- CD Boot/2 (Roman Stangl)
  http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/7885/

- OS/2 Boot CD HowTo (Chris Wohlgemuth)
  http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/5785/bootcd/Boot_cw.htm

- How to create an OS/2 Warp 4 boot CD (Dennis Lmkemann)
  http://www.goldencode.com/atlos2/notes/bootcd/bootcd.html



Required tools
- tar.exe, untar.dll, loaddll.sys for unicode subdirectory
- mkisofs when creating iso-9660 images
- LxLite and NeLite (optional) for unpacking executables

Install options
- FileCommander/2
- DFSEE
- IBM term.exe
- arj/(un)zip/rar32


If you need do changes to the produced config.sys, then take
the file from os_files\ and copy it to the (last) output media.
For ISO-9660 output, copy is to result\bootimgs\, and rerun
the result\makeiso.cmd script. Alternativly, you could copy
it to and blank floppy, label it boot_update to have it
accepted by memboot.bin.

If you want select unicode (for jfs and arj), then demo.cmd
needs untar.dll, loaddll.sys and tar.exe available on path.
You will find likely find them at
<http://WWW.Informatik.TU-Cottbus.DE/~vk/test2/>.

Demo.cmd places the files on media, as there is free space
on them, and asks for next media if not. This procedure
will fail, if you enable a lot of options and the resulting
packages are to big to fit on floppy.. 
You could experiment with fdformat/2M/XDF..


Please report problems & success.
