Are you starting the CMSTART from an OS/2 window - command line - yes you can
do that - but the window closes, and other windows are launched.  It therefore
expects the desktop to be active.  The rescue disk principle basically is the
same as if you started an OS/2 install from the installation disks, and at the
end of the second disk, where it asks you if you want to continue, you say
"NO".  At that point, you have nothing more than an enhanced DOS prompt.
Programs that need the workload or presentation manager will not function.

We went into our lab, and booted from a diskette, and tried to start CMSTART.
After we located a DLL that it was looking for, and also OSO001.MSG, the comma
nd would begin to start, but would not complete - it just sat there.  CMSTART
expects to be able to start other tasks, and of course it can't.  So I believe
that my OS/2 guys are correct.

Jerry Lawson
jlawson AT itthartford DOT com


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Subject: Re: OS/2 disaster recovery
08-21-96 12:30 PM

Jerry,
I doubt if that is true.
CM/2 can be started by using the CMSTART.EXE file which can also be run from a
n
OS/2 command line. Kind regards, Eric van Loon

>
> I checked further with my local OS/2 gurus (who did a considerable amount of
> work in helping me with the original restore disks, and the response was
that
> if you want to use Comm Manager (CM2) as your interface, then the answer is
> "it will not work."  The reason is simple - CM2 requires the Presentation
> Manager, and the original premise that we used was that you must run from
the
> command line, without PM being available.
>
> The only options they suggested was if you went back to the SNA support that
> IBM used to sell before Comm Manager was available, or through Pcom, then
> "maybe", but since I would assume that support for these products was either
> dropped when CM2 became available, ot not enhanced to handle Warp, this is
> probably not a strong possibility.
>
> Jerry Lawson
> jlawson AT itthartford DOT com
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> Subject: Re: OS/2 disaster recovery
> 08-21-96 10:00 AM
>
> I am looking for the exact same solution...  OS/2 boot disks that will load
 > an SNA CPIC connection to an ADSM host.  I have been going back and forth
> between ADSM support and Comm Manager Support.  No has been able to help me
> yet.  Let me know if anyone has info in this area.