Basil Fernie schreef:

>Hi Don
>
>Don{ald} O. Woodall wrote:
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>>    Because  "IBM"  changed from Fdisk to LVM in the Merlin
>>Convenience Packs.
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>Is there a implication here that I can FDISK my boot HDU and install eCS 
>to it without using LVM at all?
>
No Basil, you can't.

Why?

Because the 32 bit file os2dasd.dmd needs os2lvm.dmd. And os2lvm.dmd 
only will work if the system "properly" had been LVM-ed  prior to it's 
load in  memory (you know, that's the reason why there are reboots etc...)

OS2DASD.DMD waits for data parsed to it by os2lvm.dmd . If OS2DASD.DMD 
doesn't get the NECESSARY lvm data from os2lvm.dmd,  it can't assign 
drive letters and consequentely quits with the error message Jack 
reported in his earlier message here.

Bottom line: your only option NOT to use LVM is to replace the 32 bit 
os2dasd.dmd by a 16 bit os2dasd.dmd or DANIDASD.DMD. But as the latest 
of these file date from 1999, they don't/can't match 2005 hardware, and 
as such these files are already antiquated.

Suggest we forget about it, as otherwise people will get confused (again).

BTW1:

If you ask why I've been  silent hitherto, the why is:

- I usually keep my mouth shut when grown up people are talking.
- I  only interfear in a second stage when bad advises keep popping up 
(such as advising wrong drivers for a printer, trying to use the 32 bit 
OS2DASD.DMD on an 1.4 diskette and things like that).

BTW2:

What about some proper quoting?

-- 
Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris



 
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