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

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

 LP> What if I Partition Magic a small one?

 RJT> Having that makes things a _lot_ easier.  

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

 RJT> You only need _one_ cylinder to install it.

 LP> Guess would have to temp call it C and boot the DOS system 
 LP> files for the install? 

No,  there's no drive letter involved for Boot Manager.

 LP> I'm starting to wonder if I can keep the small partition hidden 
 LP> rename....  Sigh.

I don't think you'll have as much of a problem as you may suspect here.  You
have partition magic,  right?  What you need to do is this:

1.  Defrag your drive c.

2.  Fire up partition magic,  and tell it you want to work on drive c.  Shrink 
it by one cylinder.  That should give you one small free block right after it.

3.  While still in partition magic,  tell it you want to _move_ that partition 
up some,  so that you end up with that bit of free space at the beginning of
the drive.

4.  Boot from the OS/2 install disks,  and when you get to the choice of
manual or automatic install,  tell it you want to do it manually.  

5.  Go into fdisk,  and tell it you want to install boot manager.

6.  Once BM is installed,  then you can select other partitions you want to
add to the BM menu,  change the defaults,  etc.  (I typically change the delay 
time from the default setting of 30 seconds down to 5 or 10,  for one
example.)

Most of that stuff is fairly easy,  menu-driven,  and if you get messed up or
whatever,  you can always back out without saving anything to disk,  and ask
in here about it.

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