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STACKER NOTE Stac Electronics Technical Note
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Subject: I Stacked my PS/1 before I reconfigured the way it starts.
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Now what?
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Tech027- 2/20/92
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Note: If Stacker has not yet been installed, see Tech020: INSTALLING
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STACKER ON AN IBM PS/1.
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BACKGROUND:
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The PS/1 is a ROM based machine. It normally boots from its
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"Built-In-DOS" on the ROM D: drive and reads config.sys and Autoexec.bat
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from there as well. The PS/1 can be reconfigured, using"CUSTOMIZE",
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to read Config.sys and Autoexec.bat from C: so that the Stacker devices
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may be loaded. If the boot process is not "CUSTOMIZed" before loading
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Stacker, the data may appear to be "missing" because the STACKER.COM device
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has not been loaded.
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A 4 Quadrant system menu is normally loaded from ROM upon boot. It consists
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of 1.Information 2.Microsoft works 3. Your software and 4. IBM DOS. You can
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shell to a DOS prompt by pressing <shift F9>. It is installed in Config.sys:
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"INSTALL=D:\SHELLSTB.COM".
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"CUSTOMIZE How System Starts" is a program normally in the C:\DOS directory,
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but is copied into the Stacker drive upon "STACKING... the existing drive".
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The program also should be on the DOS diskettes that came with the
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machine. In the Customize program you can configure the computer to
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Read the system files, Config.sys, and Autoexec.bat from C: or D:
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Note: THE CUSTOMIZE DEFAULTS CAN BE RESTORED BY POWERING DOWN THE
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SYSTEM, HOLDING DOWN THE 2 MOUSE BUTTONS, AND POWERING BACK UP.
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RECOVERY:
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Note: You MUST have the DOS program diskette containing CUSTOMIZ.EXE
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or a bootable floppy to proceed. Nothing can be done until you have
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one of these!
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If you have the DOS program diskette:
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1. Insert the DOS diskette in A: and Run the CUSTOMIZE program from the
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Dos Quadrant. (You can also <shift> F9 to get to a prompt and run
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A:Customiz.)
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If you do not have the DOS diskette but have a bootable system
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diskette:
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1. Insert the system diskette in A: and from the system menu press
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Alt+SysRq to force the system to boot from A: (the D: Rom drive
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will not be accessible after this.)
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2. Copy config.sys to A: and reboot
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3. From the DOS directory on the Stacker drive (C:) run CUSTOMIZ.
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Running CUSTOMIZE:
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1. The third line from the bottom of the screen says "Read
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Config.sys:". Click on "from Disk"
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2. The next line down says " Read Autoexec.bat". Click on "From Disk"
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3. The last line says "Disk to Read from". Click on C:
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4. Press <ENTER> to save changes and exit.
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5. Reboot the machine.
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6. This will bring you to a C: prompt. Edit the Config.sys on C:\ and
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add the line:
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Install=D:\SHELLSTB.COM to restore the system Quadrant menu.
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7. Restart the system for changes to take affect.
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