Steve Mccrystal wrote in a message to Jack Stein:

 SH>> DOS is the lowest common denominator. Problem with your
 SH>> 32-bit OS? Boot a DOS floppy to fix it.

 JS> I've never booted DOS, any version to fix my 32 bit OS, not once,
 JS> not in I guess 9 years.

 SM> In all honesty, I kept OS/2 on a FAT drive for about 5
 SM> years, for just that reason (really).  At the time I didn't
 SM> have the drive space for a maintenance partition, so when
 SM> OS/2 refused to boot (for whatever reason) I'd simply boot
 SM> DOS and fix things up.  Booting from OS/2 floppies was
 SM> rarely an option at the time.

I could always boot from floppies, thats how you install OS/2, you boot from
an OS/2 floppy.  Early on though, I made an OS/2 boot floppy instead of using
the one that came with the install disks, one disk was better than swapping
disks.

 JS>   Why would one do something like that?

 SM> Well, essentially, to do things I was unable to do while
 SM> booted from OS/2 floppies.  With the more recent flood of
 SM> good OS/2 utilities, I no longer find it necessary, but at
 SM> the time I sure did!

I had all my ultitities in place, right from the begining, mainly just needed
an editor to fix  things up if I screwed up config.sys, which was about the
only times I can remember needing to boot from a floppy.  DOS would work I
guess, if you had it on a DOS partition.  I didn't, never did actually, I used 
HPFS from day one, one of the big reasons I went to OS/2 to begin with.

                                              Jack 
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