Article: 5405 of comp.os.os2.programmer Xref: bloom-picayune.mit.edu comp.os.os2.programmer:5405 comp.os.os2.misc:30417 comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc:11936 comp.os.os2.networking:843 Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!olivea!uunet!well!shiva From: shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc,comp.os.os2.networking Subject: New OS/2 Red Book: Remote Installation and Maintenance Summary: Part number GG24-3780-00 Message-ID: Date: 31 Jul 92 19:50:49 GMT Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us Distribution: comp Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link Lines: 62 Title: OS/2 Version 2.0 Remote Installation and Maintenance Part number GG24-3780-00 Contents: Abstract Special Notices Preface Related Publications Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Overview Chapter 2. Redirected Input/Output and Response Files Chapter 3. Installation Guidelines Chapter 4. Remote Installation Utilities Chapter 5. IBM LAN Client/Server Solution Chapter 6. TCP/IP Client/Server Solution Chapter 7. Novell Netware Client/Server Solution Chapter 8. Alternative Methods to Install OS/2 V2.0 Remotely Chapter 9. OS/2 V2.0 System Maintenance Appendix A. Response File Keyword Reference, Samples And Details Appendix B. Installation Log Appendix C. Partitioning of Physical Disks Appendix D. Description of FDISK functions Appendix E. FDISK Command Reference Appendix F. Automating Fixed Disk Partitioning Appendix G. Printer Response File Keyword Definition and Sample Appendix H. Source Code for Remote Printer Installation Program Appendix I. The Create Environment Variable Program Description Appendix J. Sample Installation Code Diskette Glossary Index A diskette with programs, C source code, sample scripts and REXX programs is included. Additional installation utilities come on the original GA disks but are not necessarily installed in a standard install and need to be unpacked. As an OS/2 OEM, the coolest thing for me about this is that, with a network adapter that plugs into a parallel port, one can just take two floppies and a virgin machine and squirt the entire OS in through the parallel port with virtually no labor (just one floppy change). The book concentrates on network software available from IBM (such as TCP/IP 1.2). FTP and other network providers should get a copy of this so that they can provide their customers with similar information. One of the most interesting suggestions in the book is to create a small 4Mb partition to put a minimal seed OS/2 on that can be used to boot from for maintenance purposes (such as when upgrading an installation or backing up otherwise locked system files). Meanwhile, can an IBM'er tell me how to clear adequate space to put an additional 425k of network stuff (apparently the minimum required to get FTP TCP/IP 1.2 to mount a network directory) on the two install disks? It appears that even after deleting the obvious unnecessary files (PS/2 drivers for non-PS/2 installation and vice-versa) there's only about 325k left. From inspection of the installation CONFIG.SYS, there appear to be several drivers which do not appear on the disks, and I must conclude that they are somehow loaded into a RAM disk by the OS loader process from some compressed source (perhaps all of the .BIO files?). Perhaps I can create my own disk image with the unnecessary drivers replaced by the ones that I need?