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Hayo Baan's bootAble
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Introduction
bootAble is an OS/2/eCS script to create a maintenance partition or
a bootable CD/DVD. This partition or CD/DVD supports enough facilities
to fully manage and recover your system.
Highlights
A few highlights of the script:
- Support for all major versions of OS/2 Warp 4 up to eCS
2.2;
- Can be used to create bootable CDs, DVDs, and maintenance
partitions (and thus can be seen as a replacement of bootOS2);
- Both floppy-emulation and no-floppy-emulation boot methods
supported;
- Easy configuration via configuration files (almost everything is
configurable);
- Interactive build of configuration files;
- WPS (VGA, gengradd, and SNAP SE) or command-line boot;
- Support for QSINIT and Air-Boot;
- Support for FAT, FAT32, HPFS, HPFS386, NTFS, JFS, CDFS, UDF, and
LVM;
- Support for AHCI, IDE, SCSI, USB, Mouse, Serial port, and
Parallel port;
- Support for Unicode;
- Support for REXX;
- Support for GENMAC and XWLAN;
- Support for basic TCP/IP networking, including DHCP;
- Support for NETBIOS and NETBIOS over TCP/IP protocols;
- Support for PEER networking;
- Support for Roman Stangl's CD Boot Menu;
- Use of DANI or default drivers;
- Use of JJSCDROM or default drivers;
- Support for RSJ or cdrecord/dvddao+mkisofs (both original and
“2” versions supported);
- Small disk footprint; less than 5MB for the command-line
version;
- Can make use of LXLITE to make disk footprint even less;
- And much, much more…
Documentation
You can view the documentation of the
latest version of bootAble online.
Downloads
bootAble files
Additional downloads