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to: RICH WONNEBERGER
from: HARRY OLDENHUIS
date: 1996-11-18 21:30:00
subject: Boot OS/2 from a diskless ws

Hallo Rich
 RW> Anyone know of a way to create a boot image for OS/2 
 RW> for diskless work stations??
 RW> OS/2 needs 2 or 3 floppies to boot & Dosgen only reads 1 floppy..
 RW> If I put all the files needed in 1 sub-dir on a server 
 RW> & map'd B: to that sub-dir would it work or burp??
 RW> TIA
 RW> Rich
 RW> I-Net   turtil@ny.frontiercomm.net
Os/2 does create a boot image on one floppy 
and it is called boot.
it creates a plain os/2 boot disk with no Dos windows support
and no menu.
But it does run and it is great if you have problems with OS/2 and 
you have to reboot the system.
Cheers Harry.
--- Maximus/2 3.01
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