RS> Corse there is always the more fundamental question about what you call
 RS> booting too. Clearly booting the boot manager from the IDE and then
 RS> having it boot OS/2 from the SCSI isnt strictly speaking booting from
 RS> the SCSI but is as close as dammit in a practical sense.

My problem is that I want to use Boot Manager, but I only have one
partition on my IDE drive, so I can't reformat it at all.  I guess I should
be able to format my SCSI, then copy all the stuff across, reformat the
IDE, then copy it back.

Come to think of it, one of the things I want to ensure is that the drive
letters stay the same when I am booting MSDOS and when I run MSDOS under
OS/2. To do this, I need to ensure that my FAT partitions come before any
HPFS partitions.  Maybe it would be best if I made the IDE boot manager +
FAT, and then partition the SCSI.  What I want is to make use of the entire
1 gig by using it to store a backlog of all messages until the 1 gig is
filled up, only purging back to a reasonable limit (say 100000/conference)
if I actually need the space (e.g. to install Unix, Windows NT, files,
etc). I hope that 5000 messages/conference limit will be overcome sooner or
later!

Any advice on the partitioning?  BFN.


Paul

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