Greetings and Salutations,

     -=> Murray Lesser wrote to Linda Proulx <=-

 > .......  OTOH if all your partitions were "primary", then none of
 >them would be able to see any of the others on the same HD.  [It's
 >after 1AM, so I hope I got that right.  If not, someone else will
 >correct me, I'm sure.]

This was not from HS.

 HS>This is a common belief, but wrong, at least for DOS and Win95.
  >These 2 OS's do see all the primary partitions on a single hard
  >drive.  Your machine is living proof (at least for DOS).  I can't
  >swear to it, but I'm almost sure that OS/2 would also see them all.

 ML>     Taken in context, the unattributed paragraph is entirely correct.
 ML> As I remember the original, the topic being discussed was Boot Manager.
 ML>  If all your bootable partitions are primary partitions on the same

The only bootable partitions are the first partitions on the hard
drives.  The other partitions are primary not bootable.

 ML> drive, they all have the same partition letter (usually C: on the first
 ML> HD, since neither DOS nor Windows can boot from any other partition).

True.  DOS boots from C.

 ML> As a consequence, none of the booted systems can see any other bootable
 ML> partition because you can have only one active C: drive on a system at
 ML> a time.  (Your guru should have known this!)  With this exception, in

He does.  The other primary partitions are not bootable except for the
1st one on Drive 1.  And that's a backup in case something happens with
Drive 0. I can switch drives & still access the drives.

 HS>If you explain this to him, he'll no doubt ask how the heck (and
  >possibly why the heck) you created 4 primary partitions on one drive,
  >since FDISK will refuse to directly do this.  The answer to "how" is
  >that I used my bag of tricks - a combination of FDISK and Norton
  >Utilities.  "Why" is a much longer story.

 ML>     Do not ever, ever, ever, use Norton Utilities (or any other
 ML> DOS/Windows disk-fixer utility) on a partition (or drive) containing
 ML> OS/2 files, UNLESS you are really an expert on the OS/2 internal file
 ML> structures and know exactly what you are doing!!!

I understand.  But remember when he was setting this up I was running
DOS & Win3X.

 ML> more.  My "top" drive letter is K: for the 100 MB Zip drive.

The present setup was to keep the from having a large number of drive
letters.  Before I started with upgrading stuff I was running Dos 3.3 &
had drive letters up to P without any thing like a zip drive attached.
Once the CDROM etc gets added these add up.

 ML>     Partitioning is probably the most important decision you will make
 ML> relative to your OS/2 installation, and should not be based on a
 ML> trivial reason such as "not wanting too many drive letters" :-).  As
 ML> Jack told you, proper partitioning includes the decisions as to what is
 ML> going to go into which partition, for ease of future system
 ML> maintenance.  This depends on what you are going to do with your

And we are discussing this on an ongoing basis.  We plan to have it
worked out by Nov 21. That is the schedule for THE day at the moment.

HS is not an OS/2 guru.  And he knows it.  He knows more about DOS &
Linux world. (Have dream machine for Linux.  Will take many years of
development.  After all took 10 years to get this unit) Many moons ago
he did OS/2 installs & I am forwarding everything from here to him to
update his info.  And we're trying to set the hard drives up initially
for long term planning.

But I am doing the install.  Keep fingers crossed X.

... The ATM just asked if I wanted to go double or nothing!
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