Roy J. Tellason wrote in a message to Jack Stein:

 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)

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

I ran OS/2 2.1 on a 60 meg partition for a few years, and had room to spare.
I figure that it's not a bad idea to use the first 504 megs for boot
partitions, considering that is generally the size recognized by your hardware 
without translation needed to read boot partitions.   I'm a little biased on
that though, considering I don't have LBA available on my system.  I sure
don't miss it, or disk mangler crap though:-)  I never had a lick of problems
with reading large drives either, unlike a million people seem to have
everytime they install a large drive.  No new drivers needed here, the
original ones work great on large drives.  The downside of course is my FAT
partitions are limited to 504 megs.  I think WIN95 has applications that
large.

                                              Jack 
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