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- From: magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: installation help
- Message-ID: <92121611511@drktowr.chi.il.us>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 11:51:46 GMT
- References: <9212087185@ritz.mordor.com>
- Organization: DarkTower Software
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- Christopher Mauritz (ritz@ritz.mordor.com) wrote:
- : In a nutshell....you are fucked. I have had this ongoing problem with
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- Yeah, well basically, he is fucked (there is no other word that could
- describe it better). I did the same thing not with coherent, but
- with a DOS partition. OS/2 is a mean SOB that likes to have everything
- to itself. Once you get it clicking, it works fine, but have plenty
- of backups before you start.
-
- : Eventually, OS/2 will decide that your Coherent parition is really
- : a wayward OS/2 partiion and chkdsk will "fix" it. I do not know why
- : this happens. The good news is that in my limited testing of linux,
- : I have not seen this behavior. Try them both and choose the one
- : that works best for you.
-
- It's probably the whatchamacallits -- you know, the hex signature that
- tells what OS is running on that partition. Linux uses the old Minix
- signature, I belive, and that may be in the OS/2 tables while Coherent's
- is not, and it looks just like a messed up partition to OS/2. My guess.
-
- -Louis
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- Louis J. Giliberto, Jr. ! magus@drktowr.chi.il.us
- -sysadmin drktowr ! lgilibe@orion.it.luc.edu
- Chicago, IL USA !
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