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Date:	Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:15:35 PDT7
From:	"Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: BA2k & maintenance partition

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On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:23:15 PDT7, Jon Harrison wrote:

>The problem is running baiicr on the maintenance partition (or in
>my case, with a slimmed down WPS created with BootAble, running
>clrest) fails. baiicr fails for me with:

Perhaps I can help. I now use BA/2K server edition, version 3.0A. I previously used BA/2K workstation edition, version 3.0.

Up until a few weeks ago, I used BAIICR on 5 crash recovery diskettes, created by first making the 4 Warp utility diskettes
and then using the BackAgain utility to modify them into crash recovery diskettes. Since I've upgraded to ECS, I no longer
use the crash recovery diskette method, because that method now fails for me. The problem is that it does not place all of
the required files on the diskette, because there is not enough room (using the 1.4 MB diskettes). So, in my case I've
switched to bootAble, the bootable CD. And I now have the BA/2K program, itself, and not BAIICR, on the CD. When I boot to
the CD, its very fast. I have a slimmed down version of the WPS and I have the use of BA/2K, the full program, and not the
slimmed down BAIICR from a commandline. I couldn't be happier!

So, my question to you is: why are you attempting to use BAIICR on a bootAble CD? Why aren't you placing the full BA/2K
program on the CD, instead? I'm not certain how you determined which Back Again files to place on the CD, if you want to
use BAIICR. How did you do that, when the BackAgain crash recovery utility is designed to use diskettes and not a CD or a
maintenance partition?

Please note that bootAble has a very good configuration file for placing the required Back Again files on your CD so that you
have the full Back Again program on the CD. That configuration file worked for me with no modification. I think you should use
that approach.

Hope this helps!
HCM

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