Hello Linda,

06 Nov 99 12:18, Linda Proulx wrote to Albert Sodyl:

LP> Still stuff to do in pre setup.  After all don't want to reinstall.

my strong advice: install bootmanager and install OS/2 on a HPFS partition,
use the advanced install for this! :) This OS/2 boot HPFS partition can be a
primary or a logical partition, a logical boot partition is more flexible
because it can access also the primary partitions on the same harddisk without 
tricks.

I don't know how fdisk will behave with your primary partitions because of how 
they are setup.

I still see no reason why 'your' guru has your primary partitions setup the
way they are.

In any way, you should only use OS/2 fdisk because that works with a nice
interface and you don't have to punch those stupid numbers like in the DOS
fdisk. Also, DOS fdisk is very limited how it can handle partitions: DOS fdisk 
can't see partitions what DOS can't see (on big harddisks), DOS and DOS fdisk
rely on the BIOS (SCSI BIOS for SCSI harddisks and the mainboard BIOS for
MFM/IDE harddisks) possibly resulting (not necessarily but possible) in
translation harddisk geometry problems if this happens it can/will screw up
the partitions big time, and DOS and DOS fdisk can't see the whole harddisk if 
it's a big harddisk, IIRC some DOS fdisk versions won't let you create
multiple primary partitions but I'm not sure about this (it's too long ago I
used DOS fdisk). DOS fdisk can't also handle HPFS partitions.

  Greetings   -=Eddy=-        email: eddy.thilleman@net.hcc.nl

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