Microsoft KB Archive/63368

INF: Hard Disk Space Size Estimates Needed for Remote Boot ID Number: Q63368

2.00 OS/2

Summary: The following are some estimates of hard disk space/size requirements that can be used when installing OS/2, OS/2 LAN Manager, DOS LAN Manager, or MS-DOS:

Program Size ——- —-

OS/2 1.2 9.761 megabytes (MB) OS/2 LAN Manager 2.0 5.396 MB DOS LAN Manager 3.235 MB MS-DOS 4.01 1.287 MB .IMG files typically 600-700K

All OS/2 remote boot workstations have private copies of workstation-specific files, such as CONFIG.SYS, STARTUP.CMD, OS2INIT.CMD, LANMAN.INI, OS2.INI, OS2SYS.INI, AUTOEXEC.BAT, SWAPPER.DAT, and some LAN Manager subtrees (PROFILES, LOGS, ACCOUNTS, REPL); however, they share a central copy of common OS/2 and LAN Manager utilities (such as OS2*.DLL and LANMAN*.EXE).

If a rippled (RPL’d) workstation uses part of the server’s OS/2 and LAN Manager trees (requiring more shares and modified .FIT files) to share some of the common OS/2 and LAN Manager utilities between the server itself and all remote boot workstations, some of the additional 15 MB for each OS/2 / LAN Manager tree can be saved. In that case, the nested OS/2 and LAN Manager trees are unnecessary; however, now the server and all the remote boot workstations must use the exact same versions of the operating system and LAN Manager. Also, it will not be possible to update one without also updating the other.

Additional reference words: 1.20 2.00