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to: DON WOODALL
from: ROY J. TELLASON
date: 1998-04-30 20:29:00
subject: maint partition size

Don Woodall wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
RT> CG> I squeezed Warp 3 onto a 75 meg partition, with 10 megs free 
RT> CG> for a swap file.  Warp 4 I got onto a 90 or so.
RT>
RT>Hmm.  I was thinking along the lines of about 80,  so I'm not
RT>too far off.  Yours is the first response I've seen to that
RT>so far,  let's see what others think as well.
 DW> Roy
 DW>      Think I installed Warp 3 in a 40MB partition with my 
 DW> essential OS/2 utilities.  But that was with and advanced 
 DW> installation and then UNchecking EVERY option.  No DOS support, 
 DW> NO windows support, etc.  It would boot up, I could go to a 
 DW> command line and run "CHKDSK" and the tape backup program, and 
 DW> that was about it.
Well,  that doesn't sound too unreasonable to me.  I mean,  what else would I 
want to *do* with a maintenance partition?  Seems to me that the networking 
stuff is one other possibility,  but that'd take up a heck of a lot more 
room, wouldn't it?
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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