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to: MIKE RUSKAI
from: Linda Proulx
date: 1999-11-17 12:07:04
subject: Re: Dos C drive

Greetings and Salutations,

     -=> MIKE RUSKAI wrote to LINDA PROULX <=-

 LP> If I changes my DOS C drive to installable in stead of bootable would
 LP> OS/2 see it then.

 MR> No.

 MR> There's no such partition status as "installable".  That's just a word
 MR> used by the OS/2 installation program.  What is in fact happening when

Doing this allowed Warp to see the 3rd partition as D where it hadn't
seen it before I did that.

 MR> you set a partition as "installable" is nothing.  No changes to the
 MR> partition are made.  Nothing is written to disk.  All that takes place
 MR> is that FDISK exits with an errorlevel of eight times the drive number,
 MR> where A=1, B=2, etc.

Didn't.

 MR> This errorlevel is used by the installation program to determine which
 MR> drive should be installed to.

Which it did on the original install by making D partition drive C


Anon,

Linda

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