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- From: reimert@mamacass.etdesg.trw.com (Scott P. Reimert)
- Subject: Re: Norton Desktop for Windows in OS/2?
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- Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 23:12:12 GMT
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- In article <Bs3nsE.n2B@acsu.buffalo.edu> syeoh@acsu.buffalo.edu (Lam Yeoh) writes:
- >Will Norton Desktop for Windows 2.0 work under OS/2? Is there any point using
- >it if we run PM?
- >
- >Thanks.
- >
- >Stephen
- >--
- >Stephen Yeoh SUNY@Buffalo
- >
- >psyeoh@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
- >syeoh@acsu.cc.buffalo.edu
-
- Sure, you can load NDW for WIN-OS2. Just start the WIN-OS2 window and run
- the install from there. When you're through, you have to migrate it though.
-
- One thing you *may* need to watch out for though is using an existing copy
- from another partition. This is what happened to me: My OS/2 partition is
- HPFS, and on the same 330MB drive I have a C: DOS partition, and a D: Windows
- partition. OS/2 was able to "see" the D: partition, so I tried to migrate a
- few applications on it for use in OS/2. I don't know exactly what happened,
- but the next thing I knew, the entire D: partition was totally munged, but
- only in areas where the migration occurred.
-
- The lesson is (I think) to use only programs loaded onto the HPFS partition,
- and not to try and "mix and match" between the two different file systems.
-
- Scott
-
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