Hello Linda!

13 Oct 99 15:45, Linda Proulx wrote to All:
 LP> Someone gave me a copy of Warp 3, Red flavour.
    Hmm... What is Red Flavour?
 LP> Am thinking of installing, but don't want it to do anything to my
 LP> harddrives.
    As I'm understand, you have
    C: fat primary on 1-st HDD
    D: fat primary on 2-nd HDD
    E: fat ext. on 2-nd HDD
    Yes? Gimme more info 'bout your hardware and partition sizes.
 LP> Want to know what best way to prep for the install.  Also want a good
 LP> bootmanager that will run off a floppy.  Will the Warp boot manager
 LP> work on a floppy?
    No.
 LP> I have 2 HDs & want to put OS2 on the primary of D drive.
    Hmmmm... Sorry for poor english.
    It's possible. I see many ways.
    1) If you have modern MoBo with many variations of boot sequences in BIOS
setup you may use this feature. In this case you C: becames D: under OS/2.
    2) Use IBM Boot Manager. Get Partition magic. Slightly resize C:. Install
BM. Enjoy. But if you want to use HPFS file system for OS/2 your E: becames D:
under DOS :( Sorry, but there's no way to work with HPFS from DOS with full
features. Or Read Only with garbaged long names or Read/Write without ones.
But
please, never use FAT->HPFS conversion in Partition Magic. It can bring up
strange behaviour into your system.
    3) Use System Commander for example. Or one of thousands 3-d party boot
managers. I think it's best way in your case. But you got same "drive letters"
restrictions as in 2.
    My opinion: OS/2 is a very good replacement for DOS environment. As
someone
says: - "...better DOS than DOS..." And if you want to use OS/2 - you must use
OS/2 ideology. For example: I have 4 partitions under OS/2.
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D:\>fdisk /query


Drive Name  Partition Vtype FStype Status   Start     Size

    1 0000003f     :    1    0a      2          0        1
    1 OS/2        D:    2    07      1          2      500
    1 000fb07f    E:    2    07      0        502      801
    1 0028ba80     :    3    00      0       1303       92
    1 DOS         C:    1    06      1       1395      509
    1 003b8e00     :    1    00      0       1905        2
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    First is a Boot Manager. C: under DOS, FAT16. At a 'tail' of HDD. 'cause
'tail' is slowly than 'head' :) I'm DOS-apps developer. And must test my
proggies under pure DOS. And I like to play Quake %) D: - bootable under OS/2
HPFS. E: HPFS too. It's a garbage collection, work drive, temporary files
collection :), mailbase and so on. Piece of 92 megs is a additional free
space.
For strange cases.
    5 years expirience under OS/2 shows me - 509 megs under DOS enough for DOS
tools, games and so on.
 LP> Lots of questions.
    I knew :)
 LP> What best freeware/shareware?
    The great software collection resides at www://hobbes.nmsu.edu or
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu. Also I have a list of OS/2-related sites. But it's more
than 60K. It's only legal sites. Also I know many illegal sites :)
 LP> What are the maintenance releases I need?
    If you want Y2K compatible system you need FP35 or greater. I'm use FP 36
on my server.
 LP> Is there one to put the Win code into the red as it is on the Blue
 LP> flavour?
    Ahhh!!! Red flavour is Warp For windows? Yes?
    No. Warp4Win have different syslevel files. You can't make Warp with
WinOS2
via fixpack.
 LP> How to setup for Dos & Win programs, lots of questions.
    Online docs is a great solution.
 LP> What would you not live without in OS2.
    It's a very good workstation for network administrator, DOS-apps
developer.
OS/2 have more better TCP/IP and NETBEUI support than wynndoze.

    So. Try to write netmail for me. Also you can use
kira@eastsoft.saratov.su.
Bye!
Cyrill                                [Team OS/2 CV004]

... "640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981
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