On Jan 24 17:13, 1997, Ian Pickering of 3:714/905 wrote:

Hello Ian,

 IP> 95's setup program spouted some bs about finding OS/2 on my hd, but it 
 IP> installed and ran prefectly.  I used dual boot and not boot manager.

 IP> If I use HPFS on my boot partition, should I install 95 on another 
 IP> partition and use Boot Manager? (previously I had 95 and Warp 3 on 
 IP> the same partition using FAT).

You would be best to partition your drive like so:

1. Boot manager
2. C: win95 - FAT (Min size about 200mb)
3. D: Data & stuff - FAT
4. E: os/2  - HPFS (Min size 200mb again)

then you just choose what operating system you want from the boot manager
menu. This gives you the advantage that from os/2 you can see the
win95/data drive (but win95 can't see the os/2 one, and wont be able to
stuff it up)

OS/2 can run/boot from a logical drive, but win95 can't. So putting win95
at the front of the drive is best.

When you install software for either operating system, do NOT install it to
the drive that that operating system run's from. That way if the os stuff's
up or you need to re-format then you don't loose as much data..

My setup here was like this (before I got the second machine)

1. Boot Manager
2. C: DOS - primary fat
3. C: Win95 - primary fat
4. D: Data & Stuff - logical HPFS

Second harddrive.

5. E: OS/2 - logical HPFS
6. F: Games - logical FAT

with the above 1/2 boot manager hide's the partition that is'nt being used,
so that I could have both dos/win95 on the same machine...

 >> the standard comm's drivers (comm.sys/vcom.sys) now support
 >> upto a locked rate of 115200. But if you want to run
 >> dos/win3.x stuff with no system hit's, then ray's sio
 >> drives's are a must. (they are anyway, as far as I cair)...

 IP> So if I run a native OS/2 comms prog like ZOC I don't need SIO????

SIO is a total comm's driver replacement (you remove or rem out the
com.sys/vcom.sys lines in your config.sys file), ZOC is just a native os/2
comm's program. Like telix is for dos...

 IP> I also heard that there was a bug in CHKDSK when Warp 4 was first 
 IP> shipped??..I hope IBM have fixed that by now!

yes there is. I've ran into it here, and IBM have released a fix/patch.



Regards,
Stephen.
Email: curl{at}lin.cbl.com.au

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