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In a msg of , Jack Stein writes to Steve Mccrystal:
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Jack,


 SM>> In all honesty, I kept OS/2 on a FAT drive for about 5
 SM>> years, for just that reason (really).  At the time I didn't
 SM>> have the drive space for a maintenance partition, so when
 SM>> OS/2 refused to boot (for whatever reason) I'd simply boot
 SM>> DOS and fix things up.  Booting from OS/2 floppies was
 SM>> rarely an option at the time.

 JS> I could always boot from floppies, thats how you install OS/2,
 JS> you boot from an OS/2 floppy.  Early on though, I made an OS/2
 JS> boot floppy instead of using the one that came with the install
 JS> disks, one disk was better than swapping disks.

  I could always boot from floppies, too, altho a quick scan of my post
would show that the problem became a lack of OS/2 utilities to FIX the
problems
as they happened.  There were numerous DOS programs that allowed me to do what 
I needed, so I just stuck with them. OS/2 is much more stable in that regard,
now, so I rarely find it necessary, but I can assure you the earlier problems
were not related to having OS/2 on a FAT drive, at least not FAT in and of
itself.

We are talking about the period here when HPFS driver updates were appearing
almost as fast as COM/VCOM driver fixes!  :^)

-[Steve]-

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