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>17. Appendix: Make SMS and firmware floppies from Linux</H1
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> This appendix will show how to make SMS and firmware floppies from
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Linux or another UNIX-like operating system
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>17.1. Why?</H2
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> Some people, like myself, seldom have access to boxes running
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AIX or MS-DOS, so I thought it could be handy to show how to
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make these utility floppies from a system running Linux (or any
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>17.2. How?</H2
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> To do this, you need the mtools package and the unzip program.
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Any reasonable Linux distribution should include these tools.
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I also use wget for downloading.
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> You will have to download the last version of SMS and firmware
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from IBM. If you want more information on the files, look <A
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> here</A
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> You also have to get a password to access the files. To obtain
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this, you have to <A
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HREF="http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/mdownload2/flicense.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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> agree to this EULA</A
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> The downloaded file is nothing but a ZIP-archive in
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disguise. Download it to a suitable directory, and unzip ip like
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this:
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>mkdir ibmdownload; cd ibmdownload
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wget http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/mdownload2/7248100.exe
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unzip 7248100.exe
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You will have to enter the mentioned password when prompted.
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> In the contents of the archive, there's among the files another
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ZIP archive, containg the SMS software. Put the contents of this
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into a subdirectory like this:
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>mkdir sms; cd sms
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unzip ../sms107.exe</PRE
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Now label a floppy disk "SMS", and put it into your floppy
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drive. Then format the floppy and copy the SMS files to it like
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>mformat a:
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mcopy *.* a:
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cd ..</PRE
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Remove the floppy, insert another labeled "Firmware", and continue
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>mformat a:
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mcopy *.6xe a:
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mcopy p93h4940.im* a:
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cd ..</PRE
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Woho! You're done. Now that wasn't difficult, was it?
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