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Date:	Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:27:55 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: sysinstx ?

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In <200310212131324.SM03256@host-66-81-195-248.rev.o1.com>, on 10/21/03
at 09:29 PM, Michael Rakijas said:

>Just in case it wasn't clear (and it wasn't entirely in my reading of
>this thread), SYSINSTX is to OS/2 is as SYSTEM is to DOS. In DOS, if you
>already had a formatted disk, you could issue a SYSTEM X: where X: is the
>lettered drive and the system files would be installed to it in the
>proper location. Most people didn't do that because they did a FORMAT /S
>command which would format and install system files in one swell foop.

Sorta. sysinstx creates an os2boot appropriate to the file system format.

Regards,

Steven

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