Greetings and Salutations,

     -=> Andy Roberts wrote to Linda Proulx <=-

 JS>> Make sure you work out your drive partitions as carefully as possible.

 LP> Have 2 hard drives setup as follows:

 LP> C - 1G
 LP> D - 1G

 AR> Both of those are way too large for any OS, such as OS/2, WinXX, DOS or
 AR> Linux. Although if I were a M$ addict, then 1GB might seem reasonable.

Why?

 LP> E,F,G - 500 MB
 LP> H - 1G
 LP> I - 1G
 LP> J - 500 MB set up with a double space drive for temp files & single use
 LP> files, eg Win installs.

 AR> I suggest you get rid of Double Space.  Most HD compression software
 AR> only slows the system down and increases the risk of loosing data.

Not using it for data, just 1 event or temp use.  I could lose
everything on the double drive & wouldn't care.

 AR> You didn't say which partitions are on which drives, nor their age nor
 AR> speed. IMO that does make some difference as to what goes where.

Drive 0 has @ 2.5 G total with C, E, F, G.

Drive 1 has @ 3.5 G total with D, H, I, J.

Not certain how old but sometime within the last 3 years I believe. Not
the fastest by present standards but OK.

None are seen as extended logical drives & C & D are seen as boot
drives. The are IDEs & are master/slaved but are both are seen as master
by diag programs.  Also run a SparQ, a Zip drive, a CD-ROM and have
other things in long term planning needing drive letters, especially in
SCSII.

 AR> C & D drives:
 AR> OS drives:
 AR> Make sure all of the partitions you want to install an OS on are
 within
AR> the 1st 1023 cylinders. WinXX (and those apps) like a primary

And this means?  All 1 G drive partitions have 16 bit cluster, all
smaller ones have 8.  Where would this be in the drive partition set up
know, taking in consideration I may add more hard drives later.  And say
I want to load Win9X and/or Linux later.

 AR> partition.  Normally I would suggest you make both C and D primary

From what I gather, all partitions are considered primary, no logical
extensions.

When I ran DOS 3.3 I had too many drive letters & don't want to get into
that again.  That's why these hard drives were set this way.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Anon,

Linda

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