rsteiner{at}visi.com schrieb:
> Here in list.os2user,
> "R. Geoffrey Newbury"  spake
unto us, saying:
> 
> 
>>Part of your problem appears to be that you have all of your programs on
>>the same partition.
> 
> 
> Some people have a tendency to do that, but I agree with you in that I
> also think it makes OS/2 much more difficult to maintain.
> 
> My own approach is this:
> 
>   (1) Create a 350MB Warp 4 boot partition in which to place the main
>       OS/2 installation.  This is plenty large enough for Warp 4 (the
>       one I'm actually using here I've managed to shrink to 257MB).

eComStation needs at least 500 MB to get installed! Required size is 1 
GB. With that GB you have enough free space to forget about space for 
spooler and swapper. For swapper: The swapper ahould be on the most 
used volume on the least used physical drive to get best performance 
when swapping is needed. The spooler needs a high amount of disk space 
when you prints big documents or graphics or a higher number of objects.

>   (2) Create a 350MB Warp 4 "maintenance" partition in which
to place a
>       parallel installation which can be booted into for emergency use.

With eComStation this is wasted space. It s so easy to boot up from CD 
for extended maintenance.

I had never found that a mainenance partiton is useful. I have since 
1988 never had a need for that. blocking a high amount (and even 3.35 
GB is a high amount) of disk space for use one once a year is wasting 
of disk space.

>   (3) Put all applications, utilities, and other software in partitions
>       other than the boot partitions, thus separating the OS/2, WinOS2,
>       and DOS application code from the base operating system.

This should be done under any OS!

>   (4) Use a drive imaging package like Powerquest's DriveImage to make a
>       backup of the above Warp 4 Boot and Maintanence Partitions after
>       the initial installation (a process which takes a few minutes),
>       and again each time a significant change is made to the system.

Nothing needed than freeware: INFOs zip/unzip. Boot up from 
installation CD (even under WARP4 possible: look out for the freeware 
named
UPDCD245.ZIP 1060770 19.08.04*
                 UpdCD 2.45 beta 2. Refresh OS/2 or eCS CD-ROM's with
                 fixpaks and updates. Update OS/2 installation CD-ROM
                 with fixpaks. This program can be used to incorporate
                 fixpaks and updates into an OS/2 Warp 3/4, WSeB,
                 MCP/ACP and/or eCS installation CD-ROM.

and you can even make a bootable CD from your WARP4 CD + fixes integrated.

> Item #4 completely removes the need to do a reinstall, since it makes a
> complete backup of the OS/2 boot partition including all config files,
> INI files, and desktop changes.  Restore the partition from a PQI file
> and it boots right away -- no tweaking needed.

backup
zip -9rS archive c:\*

followed by
ACDCR055.ZIP 1683589 27.06.04
                 Audio/Data-CD-Creator V0.55 (GPL freeware) (C) Chris
                 Wohlgemuth 1999-2004
                 http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/5785/
                 http://www.os2world.com/cdwriting  This version
                 replaces all previous releases  (V0.2 - V0.54)
                 --------------------------------------------
                 These are folder classes for the WPS which works as
                 frontends for cdrecord/2, cdrdao/2 for creating of
                 Audio- and  Data-CDs.  Just put files/folders or
                 shadows of files/folders into the Creator-folder and
                 press 'write'. Full WPS aware.  MP3 writing support.
                 MP3 encoding support.  CD track encoding to MP3 on the
                 fly.
                 Prerequsites:
                    -Warp 4, eCS
                    -A filesystem supporting long filenames
                    -EMX runtime libraries 0.9d fix4
                    -MMOS2 installed
                    -WPS-wizard (http://www.os2world.com/cdwriting)
                    -CDRecord/2, mkisofs, cdda2wav
                     (http://www.os2world.com/cdwriting=
                    -optionally: z!, MMIOMP3, LAME
                 Licence:  This package is provided 'as is' under the
                 Gnu public Licence (GPL).  All files must be kept
                 together.  Read the file 'Copying' for further
                 information.

restore:
c:
s:\unzip s:\archive

works quite better and costs nothing.

> It's even possible to use a DOS boot disk with networking support to
> back up to a fileserver on the LAN and restore from that fileserver. 
> No local disk space needed.  I use a diskette image from this web site:
> 
>   http://tdonline.com/bootdisk.htm
> 
> and it works just fine with DriveImage.  Comes with TCP/IP and Windows
> networking, and has drivers for a large number of network cards (like
> the 3Com and Intel cards I use here).

You can't use a DOS utility as this knows nothing about EAs. But when 
you ends all applications runnung you can simply copy the whole disk 
onto a network drive (NOT the system drive as it contains some open 
files that gets NOT copied (e.g. net.acc) So use the installation CD 
to boot up to commandline and then zip the system drive is required.

> I had to complete reinstall of OS/2 once in the past (back in the 2.1
> days), and while I've not had to do that since, I have done a couple of
> reinstallations of the maintenance partition just to see what might be
> involved.  I've also transferred my existing settings/software to my
> eCS box to see how easy that was.

I've installed the most used system here in 1996.  Changed the 
mainboard, the processor, the number of physical disks,.... multiple 
times but never reinstalled since then. For all that I had needed 
nothing than INFOs zip/unzip and EPM/tedit as tools.

> Item #3 in the above setup makes even that process quite easy.  Most
> OS/2 programs don't register WPS classes or make other changes in the
> boot partition except to CONFIG.SYS, so no actual reinstallation is
> required for those programs.  Instead, I make sure I have copies of
> CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT, and my 4DOS and 4OS2 alias files saved away
> somewhere safe, and I simply restore the important values in those
> files after I reinstall the OS to the maintenance partition.
> 


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