Update your OS/2 installation CD-ROM with fixpaks!

Introduction
Working principle
Download
Feedback
Feature Request
History
Useful staff
Future plans

Introduction
With UpdCD you can incorporate public IBM fixpaks into your installation CD. In this way you will be able to install a Year 2000 compliant OS/2 Warp on systems with large hard disks right from this CD. You do not have to reinstall fixpaks after using selective install. You can boot and install right from the CD. You can incorporate new products into the CD. Interested? Read on!

Working principle
UpdCD scans the original OS/2 CD-ROM which is copied to your hard disk and updates all the files which are refreshed in the fixpak. Some of the files on the CD can be updated with a simple copy command, but most of them reside in packed (a sort of zip) and zip files and they require some more processing (packing/unpacking). The current version of UpdCD supports updates of single, packed (bundled) or zipped files, which is enough to incorporate base OS/2, Device Driver, Printer, MPTS, TCP/IP, PEER, Netware Requester Fixpaks, updates for Feature Installer, Java and new products like Netscape Communicator and TCP/IP 4.x into the CD.

Building a refreshed Warp 4 CD-ROM...

UpdCD was tested with different NLS versions of OS/2 Warp 4 (English, German, Brazilian, Hungarian), Fixpak 12...16, Device Driver Fixpak 1, 2, 3, Printer Driver Fixpak, MPTS fixpaks (WR*8610, WR*8620, WR*8621), TCP/IP 4.0 fixpak (UN_0980), TCP/IP 4.1 fixpak (UN_2001), PEER fixpak, JAVA 1.1.8 run-time and toolkit fixpaks, Netware Requester 2.12, FI 1.25, Java 1.1.7, 1.1.8, 1.3 (all components), NS 4.61 and TCP/IP 4.x. There is also support for incorporating Fixpak 1/2/3, Device Driver Fixpak 2, Netscape 4.61, MPTS Fixpak 8621, MPTS update 8700 and TCP/IP 4.3 into the WSeB CD-ROM. There is also support for Warp 3, MCP1, ACP1 and eCS. The updated CD-ROM can be made bootable too. A complete update procedure can be found in the package. You may also want to inspect the UpdCD feature matrix.

The graphical user interface of UpdCD

Download
The current version of UpdCD is 2.2. It was released on 11.07.2002. This version supports the integration of the latest fixpaks, the replacement of the Warp 4 base OS resources and comes with improved Warp 3 support. Add-on product uninstallation has also been enabled in this release. You can download it from this site or from hobbes. Do not forget to check out the Useful Stuff section for the latest fixes and/or test releases.

Feedback
Your feedback is welcome! We would love to hear your success story in the UpdCD discussion group! :-) If you have a problem with UpdCD please post to this group first. Do not email me directly, I read the group every day and I will answer as soon as I can! You can also exchange experience with other users. Please keep the log file created by UpdCD handy, I might ask you to zip it and email it to me.

Requested Features
I would like to hear which features you miss from UpdCD. You can also vote on features requested by others.

History
UpdCD has a long history... Do not forget to check it out.

Useful stuff

• UpdCD 2.24 Some of the changes: install CD support Joliet format, sound driver add-on, support for CP2, aligned with JAVA 1.3.1, XR_F001, XR_C003, XR_D003 (Released on 05.11.2002)
• UpdCD FAQ (Updated on 22.06.2002)
• Listing of the directories fixes, updates and addons for various setups
• Lazy to set up UpdCD? Order the Warp Update Kit
• UpdCD discussion group on Yahoo (public read access)
• UpdCD To-Do List
• Build your own version of OS/2 with UpdCD (article about UpdCD in the May 2002 issue of the VOICE Newsletter)
• UpdCD presentation in Nieuwegein (NL, 2002) (StarOffice 5.1 file)
• UpdCD presentation in Duisburg (D, 2001) (StarOffice 5.1 file)
• UpdCD presentation on WarpStock Europe 2000 (Karslruhe, D) (StarOffice 5.1 file)
• Download components which can be integrated using UpdCD (only for the members of the UpdCD Yahoo group)
• Warp Update Page (lots of fixpak info)
• REXX script to recreate PEER icons (German, created by Thorolf Godawa)