Greetings and Salutations,

     -=> Jack Stein wrote to Linda Proulx <=-

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

Sending all this info to my guru & we've been discussing it.

 LP> Have 2 hard drives setup as follows:

 LP> C - 1G
 LP> D - 1G
 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 &
 LP> single use files, eg Win installs.

 JS> I assume thats 2 2.5 gig drives with E:, F: and G: sharing 500MB?  My

No, Drive 0 - C,E,F,G
    Drive 1 - D, H, I, J

 JS> that I use is a primary, so it is C: and I can't mess with my WIN95
 JS> partition when booted to OS/2.  If I were to do it over, I would
 JS> probably change both OS/2 partition so I could have access to my WIN95
 JS> partition at all times.

How would this be done.  May have to install it later.


 JS> I would still install 3 boot partitions.  Make 2 OS/2 partitions, and
 JS> install OS/2 in both of them.  Make one the one you generally use, and
 JS> one a copy of that.  If you screw up one, you always have the other,

LOVE that idea.


 JS> Understood.  Use your second drive to back up your first.  Then, your
 JS> first drive is free for you to FDISK and generally mess around with.
 JS> Make sure you understand how the drive letters will look when you are
 JS> finished.  The big issue here is whether your second drive has a
 JS> primary partition on it or not.  If it does, it will be D:, not matter

Actually all drive partitions are set up as primary drives.  Long story,
but done.

 JS> Oh, one more tip.  When naming your drives, name them with things like
 JS> HPFS G: and HPFS BU F, WINDATA H.  That way, when you change things
Good tip.

 JS> at by what you named it.  The actual letters might change but you know
 JS> what it used to be.  This can be very helpful, I learned that the hard
 JS> way.

Is this a big grin statement?;-)


 JS> Hurry up and get it going, before Y2K kills off too many of the
 JS> experienced OS/2 people that can give you their ideas and experiences.

November 21 is targeted date if all goes well.

 JS> people when Y2K blows up a lot of old FIDO software.  A lot of sysops
 JS> are going to disappear into the night I'm afraid.

I really hope not.  Some are Y2King I know.


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