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

 RJT> Is the partition on to which you want to install already created and
 RJT> formatted?  If so,  I'm guessing that it would be safe to assume that
 RJT> it's formatted FAT,  which means that you lose a lot of the benefit of
 RJT> the native HPFS filesystem.

 LP> Want DOS to access all drives.  Actually I want OS2 in order
 LP> to run legacy programs without the memory frustrations.

 LP> Drive D is a 1 g partition.

 RJT> If that _is_ FAT,  you're going to have some fairly large clusters,
 RJT> there!

 LP> Actually, balanced cluster size & partition needs.

 RJT> I can see only one potential problem area there should you choose to go
 RJT> with HPFS on D:,  and that's that dos/win won't see it as a usable

 LP> Don't want that.  Want to keep the 16 FAT.

Actually,  if you were to make it HPFS (and you'd gain a lot by doing so, 
both in terms of usable space and in terms of performance),  you could still
access your FAT partitions from within OS/2 and use _that_ to move stuff
around...

 LP> Also want to know about any maintenance upgrades,

 RJT> I have gone as far as Fixpack 40 here with my Warp Connect install,
 RJT> but have read recently that 42 is out now.

 LP> Ouch.  Do I have to start at 1 or can I go directly to 42?

They're cumulative,  and you can start with the latest one if you want.

 RJT> Feel free to freq "OS2" from here,  which will get you a copy of the
 RJT> OS/2 portion of my files section,  and snag anything else that you'd
 RJT> like...

 LP> I don't understand what you mean by "freq".

File request.  Or download it.  Or send a message to
fileserv%tanstaaf@frackit.com (assuming you have email) and put the words get
os2 in the body of the message and you'll get back a uuencoded zip file
(assuming you have a decoder) with the list in it.

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