Hi Linda,

 PK> Dual Boot means that DOS and OS/2 MUST reside in the SAME partition,

 PK> The next best option (IMHO) would be to install 
 PK> Boot Manager, and that

 LP> I think I got my terms wrong.  I think I meant the Boot Manager.

Then life is going to be MUCH easier for you......;-)

 LP> Can I use Partition magic to set it up?  I don't want OS2 to change
 LP> anything except load.

Yes, use Partition Magic to free up the first Cylinder of your Boot Disk and
when you install OS/2, select the ADVANCED install. This will invoke the OS/2
FDISK and allow you to put Boot Manager in the space you freed up, AND specify 
your D drive as the place you want OS/2 installed.

 LP> If I got the Blue flavour, would that mean that I wouldn't have to have
 LP> Windows on my harddrive?

Thats right, BLUE pack contains Windows WITHIN OS/2, RED pack allows an
existing Windows 3.1 environment to be run from within OS/2. I prefer the BLUE 
version, the RED version is just too easy to corrupt. Warp 4 only came out in
BLUE, they gave up on RED...

Some things you may wish to think about - 
  1. I suggest that you SERIOUSLY consider using HPFS rather than FAT for the
OS/2 partition. OS/2 NEEDS extended attributes on files to work correctly, and 
because the FAT file system does not understand these, OS/2 uses a special
file (EA DATA. SF, yes spaces included!) to store them. The catch here is that 
if you EVER touch the FAT partition with a DOS partition utility (EG Defrag a
disk), then you can almost guarantee that the Extended attributes will be lost 
for some files and you may experience some problems when you start OS/2 again. 
Think VERY HARD about this one, running OS/2 on FAT and booting back to DOS to 
touch those files WILL bite you HARD at some time if you use FAT! If you store 
them on HPFS, then DOS can't fiddle with the EA's...
  2. DOS programs run under OS/2 have no problems accessing HPFS partitions,
they look just like a FAT partition to the DOS program, so you are nt
prevented from sing HPFS partitions in a DOS box under OS/2, instead you gain
by the increased performance of HPFS.
  3. I have run OS/2 since V1.3, and HPFS the entire time. In that entire time 
I have NEVER run any sort of DEFRAG over an HPFS partition, it just doesn't
need it!

Cheers..........pk.


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