Re: Trying to create OS/2-Bootable 5.25" Diskette

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From: Erik Kovach
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:49

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In article <C1F7BD.77s@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan) writes:
>This method may not be proper, but it does work:  format the diskette to a
>higher-capacity, nonstandard format.  Using FDFORMAT (available from various
>anonymous FTP sites), I was able to create a 1.47MB diskette, on which I
>created my boot diskette.  OS/2 is able to boot from such a disk, unlike
>DOS.  Also, when you are prompted for the install diskette in making the
>boot disk, you can use the boot disk from the CSD.  It seems to work also.

Or, if you're running FAT on ANY partition that is reachable from boot,
put the CMD.EXE and the HPFS.IFS onto the FAT partition and change the
CONFIG.SYS file on the boot disk to point to THOSE files.  Now the data
will fit on a 1.2.

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From: enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Trying to create OS/2-Bootable 5.25" Diskette
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:49:32 GMT
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