*** Quoting Linda Proulx to Rich Wonneberger dated 10-23-99 ***
>  RW> You will be installing it by booting from the floppies.  OS/2's 
> fdisk
> 
> But before Os2 installs, & I use my programs, the small logical drive
> will have a letter.  I could Partition Magic & then not install OS/2 
> for
> days.  How will I tell OS/2 that the small partition is to be used at
> the BM drive?

When you choose to install BM, it gets installed then, not later.  You dont
create the partition, FDISK does what it needs to do.  The BM partition is 1
cylinder of the drive so it can be 1 meg to 24 meg (roughly) in size
depending on the size of the drive and wether you use drive translation on
not.  Your C: drive is a primary partition that is set active.  BM is also a
primary partition, but set as startable (if I understand it right).  Only 1
-primary partition- can be active at any time and it will be assigned C:

Extended partitions with logical drives in it will get assigned drive letters
next, but the BM partition still will not get one.

I had 4 primary partitions on one of my systems.  BM, W-95, W-NT, OS/2 all
getting the C: drive letter when booted.  No op-system could see either of
the other op-systems, they dont even get drive letters assigned.
All of this was on 1 hard drive.

When you install BM, add the partition you want to boot to it (BM) and give it 
a name for the boot menu.  When you re-boot, BM will display the choise and
you can boot that system.  No drive letters should change.

Rich
I-Net   turtil@frontiernet.net


... Don't you just hate it when they verbify nouns?
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