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In <Ds81oB.756@midway.uchicago.edu>, pynq@ellis.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers) writes:
>In article <31ADF44F.789F@hud.ac.uk>,
>Craig Wentworth  <c.r.wentworth@hud.ac.uk> wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>I'm trying to make up a (pair of?) OS/2 v3.0 Warp boot disk(s) with the
>>bare minimum of Novell Network Requester (for Novell 3.12) files on
>>it/them to obtain a network connection under Warp.
>
>I don't want to sound like a wet blanket, but I don't think this can be
>done - there just isn't enough room, even if you used both drives.

 THIS CAN BE DONE! 
We are doing it quite often. We have OS/2 Warp (not Connect!). We use this for
workstation cloning.  The workstations have ethernet network and 
3Com EtherLink III network cards. Here are file listings on our diskettes:

Disk# 1/3:
The volume label in drive A is DISK 0.
The Volume Serial Number is 65B9:7414.
Directory of A:\

OS2BOOT          1105  96-02-20  13:00 
OS2LDR          30208  95-09-20  20:11 
OS2VER             89  93-12-07  13:02 
OS2KRNLI       569398  95-09-21  11:52 
EA DATA   SF     1536  96-02-20  13:00 
OS2LDR   MSG     8430  95-09-20  20:12 
        6 file(s)     610766 bytes used
                      845312 bytes free

Disk# 2/3:
The volume label in drive A is DISK 1.
The Volume Serial Number is E268:C014.
Directory of A:\

BACKUP   EXE    32704  94-09-23   4:09 
CHKDSK   COM    68656  95-09-21   1:40 
NLS      DLL      512  94-09-23   3:16 
EA DATA   SF     7680  96-02-20  13:08 
SHPIINST DLL    47189  94-10-07  14:08 
VIOCALLS DLL     2048  94-09-23   3:28 
FDISK    COM   110245  95-09-21   0:11 
FORMAT   COM    68880  95-09-21   2:10 
ODPANS   DLL    21920  94-10-08  22:19 
ODPRTDRV EXE    11953  94-10-08   1:52 
OSDELETE EXE    67386  94-10-10  19:23 
LXLITE   CFG      783  96-02-23   1:01 
SYSINSTX COM    39472  95-09-20  20:13 
UHPFS    DLL   187088  95-09-21   5:21 
RESTORE  EXE    36080  95-09-08  14:45 
OSO001   MSG   174390  95-09-20  18:41 
TEDIT    EXE     9390  95-09-21   2:47 
TEDIT    HLP    14596  94-09-01  18:52 
WP ROOT   SF        0  96-02-20  13:17 
ZIP      EXE    93232  93-09-19  13:04 
UNZIP    EXE    95795  94-08-29  11:40 
FST      DOC    35124  96-02-07  13:22 
UCLONE   CMD       34  96-04-11   8:37 
FST      EXE    99328  96-02-07  13:23 
CLONE    CMD      134  96-04-11   8:35 
LXLITE   EXE    29542  96-02-23   1:01 
STUB_MIN BIN      112  96-02-23   1:01 
STUB_VDM BIN      208  96-02-23   1:01 
       28 file(s)    1254481 bytes used
                      196096 bytes free

Disk# 3/3:
The volume label in drive A is DISK 2.
The Volume Serial Number is 65D7:2414.
Directory of A:\

BACKUP   EXE    32704  94-09-23   4:09 
CHKDSK   COM    68656  95-09-21   1:40 
NLS      DLL      512  94-09-23   3:16 
EA DATA   SF     7680  96-02-20  13:08 
SHPIINST DLL    47189  94-10-07  14:08 
VIOCALLS DLL     2048  94-09-23   3:28 
FDISK    COM   110245  95-09-21   0:11 
FORMAT   COM    68880  95-09-21   2:10 
ODPANS   DLL    21920  94-10-08  22:19 
ODPRTDRV EXE    11953  94-10-08   1:52 
OSDELETE EXE    67386  94-10-10  19:23 
LXLITE   CFG      783  96-02-23   1:01 
SYSINSTX COM    39472  95-09-20  20:13 
UHPFS    DLL   187088  95-09-21   5:21 
RESTORE  EXE    36080  95-09-08  14:45 
OSO001   MSG   174390  95-09-20  18:41 
TEDIT    EXE     9390  95-09-21   2:47 
TEDIT    HLP    14596  94-09-01  18:52 
WP ROOT   SF        0  96-02-20  13:17 
ZIP      EXE    93232  93-09-19  13:04 
UNZIP    EXE    95795  94-08-29  11:40 
FST      DOC    35124  96-02-07  13:22 
UCLONE   CMD       34  96-04-11   8:37 
FST      EXE    99328  96-02-07  13:23 
CLONE    CMD      134  96-04-11   8:35 
LXLITE   EXE    29542  96-02-23   1:01 
STUB_MIN BIN      112  96-02-23   1:01 
STUB_VDM BIN      208  96-02-23   1:01 
       28 file(s)    1254481 bytes used
                      196096 bytes free

Contents of CONFIG.SYS:

buffers=64
iopl=yes
memman=noswap
pauseonerror=yes
protshell=sysinst1.exe
set os2_shell=cmd.exe
diskcache=128,LW
protectonly=yes
rem ifs=hpfs.ifs /c:64
codepage=437
country=044,country.sys
devinfo=kbd,us,keyboard.dcp
devinfo=scr,ega,vtbl850.dcp
set path=\;A:\;
set dpath=\;A:\;
libpath=\;A:\;
set keys=on
basedev=ibmkbd.sys
basedev=ibm1flpy.add
basedev=ibm1s506.add
basedev=os2dasd.dmd

rem ---------- Novell --------------
rem set NWLANGUAGE=ENGLISH
device=a:\lsl.sys
device=a:\3c5x9.sys
device=a:\ipx.sys
device=a:\nwreq.sys
ifs=a:\nwifs.ifs
run=a:\nwdaemon.exe
call=a:\nwstart.exe
call=a:\map.exe root f:=bib/dataplx:os2inst

Contents of NET.INI:

Link Support
  Buffers 20 1514
  MemPool 4096

link driver 3C5X9
  int 5
  port 300
  frame Ethernet_802.3
  protocol IPX 0 Ethernet_802.3

netware requester
  default login drive f
  preferred server biblun
  packet burst off
  directory services off
  signature level 0
  Display Hard Errors on

One can slim down the size of some .exe and .dll files using LXLITE application.

  Regards,
          Wojciech Sachwanowicz
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