Linda Proulx wrote in a message to All:
LP> Greetings,
LP> I want to install warp 3 to the D drive on my computer with
LP> Dual Boot. But I don't want it to reformat or Fdisk anything.
Is the partition on to which you want to install already created and
formatted? If so, I'm guessing that it would be safe to assume that it's
formatted FAT, which means that you lose a lot of the benefit of the native
HPFS filesystem.
I am also not at all enthusiastic about the idea of "dual boot". That uses
the _same_ filesystem for both dos and os/2, renaming files back and forth to
change which one boots the next time around. I'd much rather see OS/2 have
its own partition, set up in HPFS, and let _it_ boot. Give the choice of
which through Boot Manager.
LP> Drive D is a 1 g partition.
If that _is_ FAT, you're going to have some fairly large clusters, there!
LP> Drive C has DOS 6.22 on C & Windows 311 on E. Want to run DOS
LP> & Windows legacy programs.
I can see only one potential problem area there should you choose to go with
HPFS on D:, and that's that dos/win won't see it as a usable partition, so
when you boot to that you'll see your current C: and E: as C: and D:. This
may create some problems for you.
LP> The examples in the manual don't exactly do that.
LP> What would would be the best way to install it?
LP> Have a SCSI CD-ROM & ZIP disk & a parallel Syquest Sparq. Will
LP> the install see these or do I have to have the DOS drivers in
LP> the DOS autoexec.bat & config.sys.
Not sure about the answer to that one, as I don't have that hardware here.
LP> Also want to know about any maintenance upgrades,
I have gone as far as Fixpack 40 here with my Warp Connect install, but have
read recently that 42 is out now.
LP> the best free/shareware,
Feel free to freq "OS2" from here, which will get you a copy of the OS/2
portion of my files section, and snag anything else that you'd like...
LP> anything else I should know.
See above comments.
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