Mike Luther,

16-Mar-01 22:45:50, Mike Luther wrote to Kris Steenhaut
Subject: 2.88 MB Floppy Operations?

2. xdf formatted floppies are *read only*.

XDF is just an FDFormat size. It is not Read Only. In fact with the
1.72MB XDF format I do not even need FDREAD nor XDFLOPPY.FLT.

Even at a minimal boot the os has to write some minimal temp files
to disk (even when the tempfile is zero in size).

So, save some of your own precious time and forget about it.

Having read that last night, this morning I have a solution.

Bottom line: the xdf format wasn't one of Big Blue's brightest
ideas.

EOF .. ;)

Sneaky (manual) BootOS2:

1.) UnZip FDForm18.zip into dir FDForm18.
2.) Load Novel DOS7
3.) Blank diskette in drive A: then from inside dir FDForm18 run:
FDREAD
FDFORMAT A: F172
4.) Repeat for 2nd blank diskette: FDFORMAT A: F172
result: 1,745,408 bytes free on each (1.44MB) diskette.

5.) Load OS/2
6.) Put F172 diskette in drive A:
7.) sysinstx A:
result: Bootable diskette with os2boot 1105 3-17-01 5:15a *HSRA
8.) Copy everything from previous BootOS2 A to that same diskette.
9.) Copy everything from previous BootOS2 B to the other diskette.
result based on my FP9:

--- Disk#1 ---
The volume label in drive A is BOOTOS2_1.
The Volume Serial Number is 41D7:DE88.
Directory of A:\

OS2 <DIR> 3-19-99 9:24a
ea data. sf 2048 3-17-01 5:20a *HSRA
os2boot 1105 3-17-01 5:15a *HSRA
BK-REST TXT 1971 3-23-99 7:27p *personal note
CONFIG BAK 981 11-07-00 8:06a *personal
CONFIG SY0 853 4-24-99 11:14a *personal
CONFIG SY1 853 4-24-99 11:14a *personal
CONFIG SYS 981 2-28-01 12:44a
COUNTRY SYS 38803 1-08-98 11:31a
OS2KRNL 601505 10-12-98 1:54p
OS2LDR 33280 7-28-98 5:25p
OS2LDR MSG 8368 9-25-98 11:46a
POPUPLOG OS2 1795 10-28-00 11:40p
11 file(s) 689390 bytes used
336896 bytes free

The volume label in drive A is BOOTOS2_1.
The Volume Serial Number is 41D7:DE88.
Directory of A:\OS2

. <DIR> 3-17-01 5:17a
.. <DIR> 3-17-01 5:17a
DLL <DIR> 3-19-99 9:24a
INST