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- From: aaa@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Simon Fowler)
- Subject: Re: What is the recommended size for an OS/2 system-only partition?
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:13:20 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.181811.23621@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec14.233223.8809@msc.cornell.edu> <BzBAAD.114@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
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- In article <BzBAAD.114@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, schepers@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Peter Schepers) writes:
- > Also also, as an aside, Boot Manager allows you to set a extended
- > partition bootable, installable and the like, but when I tried to install
- > DOS 5.0 in it, it would not boot. I would just get garbage scolling across
- > the screen, and the machine would hang. Is this setup supposed to be
- > possible? The reason I ask, is your OS/2 partition is setup as an extended,
- > and it works. Does this not work for DOS as well?
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- To the best of my knowledge, DOS has to be installed in a primary partition.
- Mine is set up with OS/2 1.3 and DOS in primary partitions and OS/2 2.0 and Beta in
- extended partitions. Works fine
-
- simon
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