Jack Stein wrote in a message to Linda Proulx:

 JS> Linda Proulx wrote in a message to Murray Lesser:

 ML> strange results.  Assume that you are going to repartition and
 ML> reinstall a few times during the learning process, so don't worry
 ML> too much about getting it right the first time.  It is fairly
 ML> hard to do any real damage under OS/2, especially if you avoid
 ML> "DEL *.*" commands and keep good backups .

 LP> Oh God!  I hope not.  I don't mind tweaking bit I really
 LP> don't want to install more than once. 

 JS> The important thing is to install your operating systems on 
 JS> small partitions. 

This is a good point!

 JS> No need to backup up much of your operating system, as it is 
 JS> already backed up on your install disks.  Once you get a fancy 
 JS> desktop that you like (sometimes never happens) then, you can 
 JS> back up you ini files.  I personally never had to re-install 
 JS> OS/2 and I've been running it since the October beta in 1991 I 
 JS> believe it was.

I believe I had to re-install once,  and that was only after some *serious*
messing around,  it took a lot to trash it...

Lots of stuff that you ordinarily just wouldn't *do*.  

 JS> Make sure you work out your drive partitions as carefully as 
 JS> possible.  Do it on paper and give it a lot of thought, 
 JS> possibly post your thoughts here as you will get a lot of 
 JS> opinions on how to partition.

Here's a couple of thoughts:  I like to keep the OS,  application programs, 
and data separate from each other.



 JS> My recommendation is create 3 boot partitions, around 150 - 300 
 JS> megs each (I run WARP 3 and WARP 3 connect in 150 meg 
 JS> partitions with plenty of room to spare, and WIN95 in a 200 meg 
 JS> partition, with plenty of room to spare) Make two of them HPFS 
 JS> and install OS2 on them, or linux on one, and WIN95 on a FAT 
 JS> partition.  If you keep them all within 504 megs total, you 
 JS> don't even need LBA addressing for your large drives.  (I run a 
 JS> 5 gig drive, and no disk mangler, no LBA addressing available 
 JS> on this machine)

FWIW,  I have at least three boot partitions (on 2 machines) that are around
80-85 megs each.

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