rsteiner{at}visi.com schrieb:
> Here in list.os2user,
> Kris Steenhaut  spake unto us, saying:
> 
> 
>>Herbert Rosenau schreef:
>>
>>
>>>With eComStation this is wasted space. It s so easy to boot up from CD 
>>>for extended maintenance.
>>
>>Indeed it is. Even stronger, I would say it's counter productive to 
>>setup a maintenance partition.
> 
> 
> That makes it hard to fix something when you misplace your CD, however,
> or if your CD was damaged, and it doesn't give you network access if
> you need to grab or research something as part of the repair procedure.
> 
> I *have* used the eCS 1.1 installation CD myself to fix a broken LVM
> setup, though, so I know it also works well for some things.
> 
As I've trained into shorthand backup all my OS2/eCS computers have 
anything I may ever need in case of a crash (system drive, network 
card, cable local available I can in  case of a problem that is not 
recoverable by boot up to commandline (boot with Alt+F1) quickly boot 
from CD.

By that it is a good idea to fixup \os2\boot\config.x so that boot to 
commandline will initiate the network card and makes it possible to 
login into LAN. I'd done that some month ago to get the content of a 
local disk that went to be readonly during power fail onto another 
disk in the net using DFsee as nothing was able to clean the busy bit 
on that disk.

\os2\boot\config.x is readonly! So remove the read bit and insert then 
the right NIC makes it possible to use the net even when you can't 
boot to WPS.

Only when the system drive itself gets in a state that it is 
unbootable to commandline then the eCS CD #1 is needed to get a system 
up and running that can either change the config.sys, startup.cmd or 
others, run chkdsk /F:3 or DFSee on it. Always use formtat /L 
during/before install as this is required to get chkdsk /F:3 working.

-- 
Tschau/Bye

Herbert Rosenau
EDV Beratung & Programmierung
Lindelbrunnstr. 53a
76767 Hagenbach

Tel: 49-7273-919416
Fax: 49-7273-93072                     http://www.dv-rosenau.de/


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