Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!hobbit.gandalf.ca!dperks
From: dperks@hobbit.gandalf.ca (Dave Perks)
Subject: Re: making an os/2 5.25" install disk from a 3.5" disk
Message-ID: <1991Jun2.191846.4826@hobbit.gandalf.ca>
Organization: Gandalf Data Ltd.
References: <457.2844fde8@mbcl.rutgers.edu>
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Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1991 19:18:46 GMT
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In <457.2844fde8@mbcl.rutgers.edu> goldman@mbcl.rutgers.edu writes:
>...How would I go about
>making an os/2 bootable 5.25" disk drive to start installing os/2 1.3
>on my Compaq?
(which doesn't have a 3.5" disk drive.)

1) find a machine with a 3.5" A: drive and a 5.25" B: drive. If necessary,
swap the drive cable or move the drive select jumpers temporarily.

2) boot using the 3.5" OS2 INSTALL disk. When the IBM blue screen appears,
hit escape to get to command mode.

3) C>sysinstx b:
which copies a boot record, OS2LDR, and OS2KRNL onto the (previously
formatted, I forgot that part ;-) 1.2Mb 5.25" disk.

4) copy all the rest of the files from A: to B: leaving out the ones that
are not needed (like the xxxx02.SYS files) so that they fit on the
smaller disk.

5) label the disk OS2 INSTALL

6) copy all the other disks over, labels and all. I don't know if they
fit.

Disclaimer: I followed this procedure up to step 5) and it worked for
my noname clone. Then I gave up and put a 3.5" drive on instead! Too bad
noone seems to stock the 5.25" version of OS/2 "But all IBM machines have
3.5" drives... AT? We haven't been in business that long."

dave perks
