18 Dec
2001
18 Dec
'01
1:50 p.m.
I've been running OS/2 as my main desktop since 1992 so I don't know
anyone more qualified....:
I've never had any trouble making duplicates/backups of my OS/2 cdroms.
Including EcomStation.
Warp connect and Warp 4 will require patched installation floppy to
install on a drive larger than 4.0gb. SCSI drives excepted I believe. The
files you need are at IBM's software support site and are: FDISK.COM, and
IBM1S506.ASS ---> the IDE hard disk driver for os/2.
Ecomstation and newer releases from IBM don't have this limitation.
I use Ecomstation on my main machine. My router is running Warp Connect
with the latest fixpacks (OS/2 has had web-enabled auto-updates for YEARS
which makes it easy as pie to update). The router software is "SafeFire"
nat router and firewall (freeware). It serves my Sparc, Vax, AtariST, OS/2
PC, and two Windows boxes in addition to my Data General mini.
Regards,
Jeff
In <10112181838.ZM25711(a)mindy.dunnington.u-net.com>om>, on 12/18/01
at 06:38 PM, pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com (Pete Turnbull) said:
On Dec 18, 10:56, Christopher Smith wrote:
Well, I've
never met a standard CD that it wouldn't work on. I was told
third-hand by somebody who worked for SGI that their media was somehow
"copy
> protected" and couldn't be reproduced well.
>
> I've successfully imaged my IRIX 6.2 media and booted/installed my system
> from the backup. Works fine. Same experience here. i've made copies of IRIX
CDs, and I've made
non-standard bootable distribution CDs. The only unusual feature is that
they're an EFS filesystem rather than, say, ISO9660. But as far as a
burner is concerned, an image is an image, and as far as Linux's dd
command is concerned, the same is true (I've copied Apple CDs the same
way, by dd'ing from the raw disk device holding the CD, to a file.).
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