BOOT.TXT - Instructions for manually creating boot diskettes. Creating the boot diskettes: The following method for creating recovery boot diskettes requires COPIES of OS/2 installation diskettes 0 and 1. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD THE ORIGINAL OS/2 INSTALLATION DISKETTES BE MODIFIED IN ANY WAY. Obtain three blank, formatted diskettes. Label them "Recovery disk 0", "Recovery disk 1", and "Utility disk". Start an OS/2 Window, located in "OS/2 System" folder; "Command Prompts". Use DISKCOPY to make duplicates of the OS/2 installation diskettes 0 and 1 on recovery diskettes 0 and 1 respectively: DISKCOPY A: A: Execute the command once for each diskette to be copied. Note: Since no modifications are made to recovery diskette 0, you do not actually have to make a copy of OS/2 installation diskette 0. You could use the original OS/2 installation diskette 0 in place of recovery diskette 0 when booting with recovery diskettes. If you have a CDROM version of OS/2, refer to the readme on the CDROM for instructions on creating floppy boot diskettes. Now, at this point, put the original OS/2 diskettes away. You will not need to use them again in creating the recovery diskettes. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD YOU USE THE ORIGINAL OS/2 INSTALLATION DISKETTES WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW. IF YOU DO, THEY WILL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO INSTALL OS/2. Insert recovery diskette 1 in the floppy drive. Delete the file BUNDLE using the following command (remember to substitute B: for A: if you are using drive B: in the commands below): DEL A:\BUNDLE Now copy the tape device drivers that you will need to the A: drive. BackMaster currently comes with three device drivers: FTDVR.SYS - Standard floppy tape, high-speed adapters including FC10 and FC20. PTDVR.SYS - Parallel port tape driver. TC15DVR.SYS - TC 15 high-speed adapter only. These device drivers can be found in the directory in which BackMaster was installed. If you took the defaults when installing BackMaster, the files will be in a directory called BACKMAST in the root directory of the drive from which the system boots (this is the drive that the OS/2 Window was set to when started). Suppose that BackMaster was installed to C:\BACKMAST and you wanted to copy FTDVR.SYS to the A: drive. In this case, use the following command: COPY C:\BACKMAST\FTDVR.SYS A: Copy only the driver(s) you will need to the A: drive. Once the files are copied, you will need to edit the CONFIG.SYS file on A:. Use the following command: E A:\CONFIG.SYS Modifying the CONFIG.SYS file: Add the driver name(s) you copied to the CONFIG.SYS file: DEVICE=A:\FTDVR.SYS DEVICE=A:\PTDVR.SYS Only one of FTDVR.SYS and TC15DVR.SYS may be referenced in the CONFIG.SYS, however PTDVR.SYS may be referenced in the CONFIG.SYS with any other BackMaster driver. Usually you will need only one driver on the recovery diskettes. If you are running Warp with 8MB of memory or less, and experience problems running BMREST, try adding the '/M' driver memory enhancement option to the BackMaster drivers in CONFIG.SYS on your boot floppy as follows: DEVICE=A:\FTDVR.SYS /M If you use the '/M' option, NEVER load more than one driver at a time in the CONFIG.SYS. Now save the file CONFIG.SYS file to the A: drive and exit the editor. At this point, you have a bootable set of recovery diskettes. If you have 8 MB of memory or less, you will need to enable swapping to hard drive before using BMREST to restore files. When swapping is enabled, a file named SWAPPER.DAT is written to a hard drive. In order to write the SWAPPER.DAT file, the hard drive that SWAPPER.DAT is on must be formatted. Since this will not always be the case when using the recovery boot diskettes, you cannot always boot with swapping enabled. We suggest creating an additional set of recovery diskettes 0 and 1 with swapping enabled in the case of a machine with 8 MB of memory or less. Obtain two additional blank, formatted diskettes. Label them "Recovery diskette 0 (swap)", and "Recovery diskette 1 (swap)". Follow the steps for creating the recovery diskettes 0 and 1 and add the following: Insert Recovery diskette 1 (swap) and edit the CONFIG.SYS file using the following command: E A:\CONFIG.SYS Find the following line in A:\CONFIG.SYS (it should be near the top of the file): MEMMAN=NOSWAP Change this line to read: MEMMAN=SWAP,PROTECT Directly after the MEMMAN line, insert the following line.: SWAPPATH=C:\ If want to place the swapfile on a drive other than drive C:, substitute the appropriate drive letter in place of C: above. Now save the file CONFIG.SYS to the A: drive and exit the editor. Remember, if you have 8 MB or more of memory, you will probably not need the set of recovery boot diskettes with swapping enabled. Creating the utility diskette: Insert the blank, formatted diskette labeled "Utility diskette" in floppy drive (remember to substitute B: for A: if you are using drive B: in the commands below). If your system does not boot from C: substitute the appropriate drive letter in place of C: in the commands below. The drive your system boots from is the drive letter displayed in the OS/2 Window prompt when it first starts. From the BackMaster directory (which is the same directory that FTDVR.SYS and PTDVR.SYS -- described above -- are in) copy the following four files to the A: drive: COPY C:\BACKMAST\BMREST.EXE A:\ COPY C:\BACKMAST\QICCOMPR.DLL A:\ COPY C:\BACKMAST\T2.EXE A:\ COPY C:\BACKMAST\THELP.HLP A:\ From the OS/2 system directory on the default boot drive copy the following files to the A: drive: COPY C:\OS2\CHKDSK.COM A:\ COPY C:\OS2\FDISK.COM A:\ COPY C:\OS2\FORMAT.COM A:\ COPY C:\OS2\ATTRIB.EXE A:\ COPY C:\OS2\SYSTEM\OSO001.MSG A:\ COPY C:\OS2\DLL\UHPFS.DLL A:\ If you are running OS/2 3.0 Warp, copy the following additional files to the utility diskette in the A: drive: COPY C:\OS2\DLL\KBDCALLS.DLL A:\ COPY C:\OS2\DLL\MOUCALLS.DLL A:\ COPY C:\OS2\DLL\VIOCALLS.DLL A:\ COPY C:\OS2\DLL\NLS.DLL A:\ Note: You will be unable to copy UHPFS.DLL if your system does not have at least one HPFS partition. UHPFS.DLL will be found only on systems with HPFS installed. If you do not have HPFS installed, you will not need UHPFS.DLL on the utility diskette. At this point, your recovery diskettes should be created. It is a good idea to test the recovery diskettes to make sure that they work, and that you understand how to use the recovery diskettes and BMREST. See the BackMaster online help for more information.