CD Boot/2

Version:

2.00

Release date:

Tuesday, 28 May, 2002

Home:

https://web.archive.org/web/20090724160932/http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValle…

Categories:

License:

Open source (generic)

Interface:

PMShell
Workplace Shell
VIO

Italiano

Authors/Port authors:

Roman Stangl

CD Boot/2 is a utility to enhance bootable OS/2 CD-ROMs so that when the CD-ROM is inserted into the drive, a menu is displayed immediately after BIOS has started booting from it. From that menu, the user has to press the spacebar to continue booting from the removeable media, or if the customizeable period expires, the boot process continues booting from the first harddisk instead.

This is helpful if you want to create a single bootable OS/2 installation CD-ROM (in contrast to the 2 CD-ROM based solution IBM ships with Aurora, Aurora and Merlin Convenience Pack) and still don't want to manually take care of removing the CD-ROM during the subsequent reboots during OS/2 installation.

You can also use it to enhance FAT-based non-OS/2 bootable diskettes (like e.g. DOS, WIN9x, WIN NT, W2K) with some limitations.

This software is distributed as compressed package. You have to download and manually install it; if prerequisites are required, you will have to manually install them too.

Manual installation

Program is distributed as ZIP package: download to temporary directory and unpack to destination folder. See below for download link(s).

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

CD Boot/2 v. 2.00 (28/5/2002, Roman Stangl)	Readme/What's new	CD Boot/2 V2.00 for OS/2 Copyright (C) by Roman Stangl April, 2002 CD Boot/2 is a utility to enhance bootable OS/2 CD-ROMs so that when the CD-ROM is inserted into the drive, a menu is displayed immediately after BIOS has started booting from it. From that menu, the user has to press the spacebar to continue booting from the removeable media, or if the customizeable period expires, the boot process continues booting from the first harddisk instead. This is helpful if you want to create a single bootable OS/2 installation CD-ROM (in contrast to the 2 CD-ROM based solution IBM ships with Aurora, Aurora and Merlin Convenience Pack) and still don't want to manually take care of removing the CD-ROM during the subsequent reboots during OS/2 installation. You can also use it to enhance FAT-based non-OS/2 bootable diskettes (like e.g. DOS, WIN9x, WIN NT, W2K) with some limitations. You are allowed to freely use, enhance or redistribute this package, if you don't strip anything, please see the online help for further details! This package is provided as-is, I shall not be held liable for any damages! For more detailed information, please take a look at my site at: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/7885/ or the shorter alias: http://www.geocities.com/warpguru/ or E-mail me at: Roman_Stangl@at.ibm.com Filename: CDBoot2v200.zip
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/cd/cd-r/cdboot2v200.zip
CD Boot/2 v. 1.50 (20/6/2001, Roman Stangl)
www.os2site.com/sw/util/disk/boot/cdboot2v150.zip	local copy
CD Boot/2 v. 1.40 (1/6/2001, Roman Stangl)
www.os2site.com/sw/util/disk/boot/cdboot2v140.zip	local copy
CD Boot/2 v. 1.20 (1/3/2001, Roman Stangl)
www.os2site.com/sw/mmedia/cdr/boot/cdboot2v120.zip	local copy