Some senseless babbling from Linda Proulx to Mike Ruskai
on 11-17-99  12:07 about Re: Dos C drive...

 LP> Greetings and Salutations,

 LP> -=> 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

 LP> Doing this allowed Warp to see the 3rd partition as D where it hadn't
 LP> 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.

 LP> Didn't.
 
 MR> This errorlevel is used by the installation program to determine which
 MR> drive should be installed to.

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

You're confused about what it is you did.  When you set the given partition
installable, you change it from hidden to visible, and all other primary
partitions on the drive to hidden.

You'll never get OS/2 to see all of your drives so long as you use Boot
Manager, because of the reasons that have been explained countless times by
myself and others in this echo.

If you repartitioned to use an extended partition and logical drives, you
won't have any problems with seeing all drives.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


... And those who lack the courage say its dangerous to try.

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