Denis Tonn wrote in a message to Jack Stein:
 DT> Original from  Jack Stein  to Charles Bowman on 04-10-1998
 DT> Original Subject: Setup problem
  CB> After doing the xcopy you need to also run sysinstx.com
  CB> (can't remember the syntax) to install the operating system
 DT>  Sysinstx C: (or whatever drive you are trying to make
 DT> bootable).   
 JS>  When I installed my new drive, I did the xcopy thing from my 
 JS> old drive to the  new partition in the new drive and never 
 JS> did the sysinstx  thing, and it worked fine.  
 DT>  Sysinstx will update the partition boot sector to look for
 DT> OS2BOOT  and install the correct version (HPFS or FAT) of
 DT> OS2BOOT to the drive.  
 DT>  If the partition was previously formatted by OS/2, it will
 DT> have the  correct partition boot sector installed (it will
 DT> look for OS2BOOT) and  xcopy will copy the OS2BOOT file from
 DT> the source drive (with the right options to copy system and
 DT> hidden files). 
Yes, thats what happened in my case, I formatted the new drive with OS/2 HPFS 
and the old drive was also formatted that way.  
 DT>  If the target drive was previously formatted for Dos or it
 DT> is a  different format than the source drive, then you will
 DT> need to use  sysinstx, otherwise you should be ok. 
I never thought about that, just figured nothing changed other than a new 
drive, so things _should_ work, and they did.  I was partitially lucky that 
my reasoning worked, although I probably would have tried the same thing if I 
went from FAT to HPFS, and I would have been searching for reasons it didn't 
work. I don't use FAT much, only have it installed for an almost never used 
WIN95 partition.   
 DT> Either way, sysinstx will not  hurt and is normally good advice.
 DT>  The "correct" sequence is to do xcopy and then sysinstx
 DT> since this will overlay OS2BOOT with the right version for
 DT> the type of format of the drive. 
Good info to know.  Thanks, I'll file it in a remote memory bank and see if 
it can be recalled when needed.  Short term RAM is going fast though, so 
it'll have to cook awhile:-)
                                              Jack 
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