Ref: 03050017
Title: NETSETUP "System error 3" After XCOPYing C$
Date:  1/4/91

Copyright 3Com Corporation, 1991.  All rights reserved.

It is tempting to duplicate or backup a 3+Open server's configuration by
XCOPYing the entire contents of the server's C$ partition to another
computer's C: drive.  (If you do this, you will also have to manually copy
a few files, such as NET.ACC, that did not get XCOPYed because they were open
at the time XCOPY was executed.)  However, after doing so, you may find that
the NETSETUP program fails with a "System error 3" message, just before the
menu asking for adapter type comes up.

The problem is due to having run XCOPY using only a /S (copy Subdirectories)
switch, rather than also including the /E (create Empty subdirectories)
switch.  NETSETUP needs to use a certain directory which is normally empty,
so it does not get created on the target server if the /E switch is not used
when XCOPYing.

To solve the problem, you may XCOPY the C$ partition all over again, using
the /E as well as /S switch this time.  Or, you can try patching up the
situation by manually creating the subdirectories C:\3OPEN\OS2DRV\PARMS
and C:\3OPEN\DOSDRV\PARMS on the new server.

