Gene Tucker wrote in a message to Linda Proulx:

 GT> In a message dated 10-14-99, Linda Proulx said to Gord
 GT> Hannah: 

LP>What about the Boot Manager though?  What will it do to my C: drive?

 GT> Boot mangager requires it own 3MB partician on your C: drive.

This is not correct.  Boot manager requires _one cylinder_ at the beginning of 
_the first physical drive_.  There's no "3MB" in there anywhere,  and the
actual amount of drive space used is going to depend on the way the system
deals with the geometry of the drive.  It'll vary from 1M to as much as 8M.

Saying "on your C: drive" is inaccurate,  too,  as the drive letter refers to
the first bootable primary partition _after_ the partition that contains Boot
Manager.

 GT> This does mean you will have to backup C drive and reinstall 
 GT> after you have recreated the partician with OS/2 Fdisk. 

No it does not.  If Partition Magic is available,  as she has indicated,  then 
it can be done without having to back up,  delete and recreate as you say
here.

 GT> If you are running Win9X you will not be able to use FAT32 

You can if you set up partitions first and install w9x afterwards,  that's
_internal_ to the partition in question and doesn't have anything to do with
the rest of this stuff.

 GT> and you will have to reboot with OS/2 Fdisk to activate the 
 GT> Bootmanager after installing Win9X.

Actually that can be done with win's fdisk as well.  They do warn you about
this during the install process,  too.  I can understand it as there are a
number of reboots required during the install process,  but a fresh install of 
win is probably not necessary in this case.

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