-=> Quoting Ray Hughes to All <=-

 RH> {at}PID: BWMAX2 3.20 [Reg]
 RH> {at}MSGID: 3:640/201.0 32b5db55
 RH> I'm having trouble reinstalling Warp 3.0 (Red Spine) to my D: drive.

 RH> Having a small (420 Meg, FAT-formatted) C: drive and a larger (830
 RH> Meg, HPFS -formatted) D: drive, I thought I'd set up my system to
 RH> dual-boot with DOS on  the C: drive and OS/2 on the D: drive. 

 RH> I backed up the D: drive, and reformatted it HPFS again (just to wipe
 RH> it clean),  then commenced to reinstall with the Advanced option,
 RH> telling it to install to D:.  The installation program threw me into
 RH> FDISK, and eventually told me to set a  partition 'installable'. The
 RH> option, however, remained (and remains), obstinately  greyed-out.

 RH> The D: drive has a single 830 MB partition, and I have an older BIOS -
 RH> no  EIDE, or LBA, support. I have heard and read repeatedly that Warp
 RH> will install on a large hard drive with no extra support needed, as
 RH> long as it's installed within the first 528 MB (1023 cylinders from

That is correct, but that "Partition" must not go over the 1023, and your's
does go beyond that. You will need to split the second partition, so that d:
is all below 1023, and e: uses the rest, then warp will go onto d:

This is not only for Warp, but all operating systems, with your BIOS.


Regards,
Viv.




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