From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 00:01:07 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 886 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Monday 12 July 2004 Number 886 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: OT: Creating DOS installation CD : Kris Steenhaut 2 Re: Booting from USB flash drive : Ed Durrant 3 Re: OT: Creating DOS installation CD : Robert Traynor (BobT)" 4 Re: OT: Creating DOS installation CD : Kris Steenhaut 5 Re: OT: Creating DOS installation CD : Leigh Bunting **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 16:19:03 +0200 From: Kris Steenhaut Subject: Re: OT: Creating DOS installation CD Robert Traynor (BobT) schreef: >Hi Kris, > >I am currently assisting Martin Kiewitz, the author of Air-Boot >with problems with the latest version 1.02. > > Good. I got a message from him about 2 months ago with a request to translate some entries in Dutch for a new 1.2 version. As I haven't heard anything yet I was wondering what is happening. >But one problem occurred was that when I upgraded to v1.02, >I found I could not revert to v1.01. Enough of 1.02 was detected >by 1.01 to prevent an older version (ie 1.01) from being loaded >to the MBR. > > > Bizarre. I've switched back here and again and I had no troubles. > > >WipeTrkD.exe wipes the MBR except for the partition data >and seems safe to use. > > > Interesting. You are booting from a Dos diskette to perform the trick, aren't you? -- Groeten uit Gent, Kris ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 06:47:14 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: Booting from USB flash drive Hi Peter, Does your systems BIOS state that it supports booting from USB and if so is it set to USB device first in the boot sequence setting in CMOS ?? Cheers/2 Ed. Peter Rehfisch wrote: > Has anyone been able to work out how to boot from a USB flash drive? > My config.sys includes the lines - > > BASEDEV=os2dasd.dmd > BASEDEV=ibm1flpy.add > BASEDEV=danis506.add > BASEDEV=daniatap.flt > BASEDEV=IBMINT13.I13 > BASEDEV=usbohcd.sys > BASEDEV=usbuhcd.sys > BASEDEV=usbehcd.sys > BASEDEV=usbd.sys /I13 /REQ:USBUHCD$,USBOHCD$,USBEHCD$ > BASEDEV=usbhid.sys > BASEDEV=usbmsd.add > > and all the drivers seem to load but then the message- > OS/2 is unable to operate your hard drive or diskette. > > Anyone with a suggestion? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:03:08 +1000 From: "Robert Traynor (BobT)" Subject: Re: OT: Creating DOS installation CD On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 16:19:03 +0200, Kris Steenhaut wrote: > Robert Traynor (BobT) schreef: > >WipeTrkD.exe wipes the MBR except for the partition data > >and seems safe to use. > > > Interesting. You are booting from a Dos diskette to perform the trick, > aren't you? Yes. > Groeten uit Gent, > > Kris ,-._|\ Robert Traynor (BobT) / Oz \ email rtraynor at removeme.optusnet dot com dot au \_,--.x/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 02:25:39 +0200 From: Kris Steenhaut Subject: Re: OT: Creating DOS installation CD Robert Traynor (BobT) schreef: >On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 16:19:03 +0200, Kris Steenhaut wrote: > > >>Robert Traynor (BobT) schreef: >> >> >>>WipeTrkD.exe wipes the MBR except for the partition data >>>and seems safe to use. >>> >>> >>> >>Interesting. You are booting from a Dos diskette to perform the trick, >>aren't you? >> >> > >Yes. > > > > Very interesting indeed. Thanks a lot! -- Groeten uit Gent, Kris ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:33:10 +0930 From: Leigh Bunting Subject: Re: OT: Creating DOS installation CD Robert Traynor (BobT) wrote: >You are missing the point, which is Gavin was trying to INSTALL >DOS from a bootable CD > Oops. I did too. There is also this site for a CD installation: http://newdos.yginfo dot net/msdos71/index.htm#msbd which I have used and it works too. Pity Bill didn't include support for installation to HPFS/NTFS disks. Leigh Bunting Colonel Light Gardens South Australia ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------