Linda Proulx wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

-=> Roy J. Tellason wrote to Linda Proulx <=-

 LP> Want to know what best way to prep for the install.

 RJT> Back up first?  :-)

 LP> Too true.

 RJT> What I'd do is back up,  remove existing partitions,  install boot
 RJT> manager,  put new partitions on there allowing for BM on the first
 RJT> drive,  and then go from there.  Whether you want to go that far is
 RJT> another question.

 LP> What if I Partition Magic a small one?

Having that makes things a _lot_ easier.  

Yeah,  if you can shrink your first partition slightly,  then move it up some, 
you can install Boot Manager at the beginning of the HD and no problem...

You only need _one_ cylinder to install it.

 RJT> No,  the red takes your existing copy of win3 to use for running win
 RJT> programs, while the blue has winos2 built into it,  which is not the
 RJT> same.

 LP> sigh.....

 LP> Reconfig in the DOS world.

 RJT> What does this one do?

 LP> It allows different start up options.

I have a bunch of software like that in the files section here,  but never
really got into using any of it.

 RJT> You'll need a *bunch* of floppies for the fixpack,  then.  

 LP> Would Zip Disks work> 

Good question!  I don't know offhand.  I only recently acquired one of those
drives,  it came with a machine I have here,  but it's external,  and SCSI, 
which means I conceivably *could* plug it into this box here and use it.  Only 
I don't have any disks for it yet,  and have no idea what it's going to take
to make it work with OS/2.  I'll let somebody else jump on that one.

I've stayed away from the fixpack issue for a long time,  until I found out
that I needed it for something or other on the other OS/2 box here,  and I got 
#40 which was current at the time and installed it directly from the HD.  This 
was a few months ago...

(Looking back at earlier messages...)

Oh,  for just transferring the fixpack files to your system?  Sure,  that
should work okay.  Provided you can get OS/2 to see the zip disk,  and on that 
one I don't have an answer for you because I haven't tried it here yet.

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