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Date:	Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:05:27 PDT7
From:	"lists 2 svobi at synass dot net" <lists2svobi@synass.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: sysinstx ?

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Hi Peter, =

be careful: Your are mismatching something here !!!

SYSINSTX is a system command !!

The rest is now confusing me =

because in my weak English I cannot explain easily:

With FDISK one can do partitioning and partitions are =

controlled by the MBR (Master Boot Record).

FORMAT in my eyes is clearing, deleting, erasing =

something you do format ;-(((

Well back to SYSINSTX:
Let's say you do copy files, just a normal copy, from your =

present OS/2 system partition to another one ...
=2E.. you may have most of the files on your new destination !

If you start booting from this new destination you will get a =

complaint because with normal copying you have not =

brought over some hidden system files !!

SYSINSTX places these basic system files !?!

Another possibily:
Rarely a running system partition will not boot anymore ...
=2E.. and you get the following error message:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
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SYS2027: Insert a system diskette and restart the system.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Apply SYSINSTX to this system partition and your next =

reboot may be successfully working again !?

Good luck, svobi

PS:
I would suggest you wait for Steven's better explantation ;-))

pskye@peterskye.com on 18.10.2003 20:24:06
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Subject: SCOUG-Help: sysinstx ?

svobi wrote:
> =

> >What is SYSINSTX?
> =

> . . . remember DOS times !? To make a floppy
> bootable you needed a special command !
> SYSINSTX does the same or somewhat similar !!

Thanks Svobi.

In DOS it was something like FORMAT /MBR. I thought OS/2 had FDISK
/NEWMBR. What does SYSINSTX do that FDISK /NEWMBR doesn't do?

And what subdirectory is SYSINSTX in? I can't find it. (I'm using Warp
4 FP 10 -- was SYSINSTX added since then?)

- Peter

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