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- From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
- Subject: Re: Will this work to add a 2nd drive ??
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.102830.25879@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 10:28:30 GMT
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- Todd Lee Henderson (th9708@meibm8.cen.uiuc.edu) wrote:
- : Hello all. I currently have a Maxtor 7130 IDE drive and will be adding
- : a 7213 IDE drive within the week. This is my plan of attack to try and
- : keep room for future growth and keep things simple. I would like to
- : have 'system+commerc. apps+network apps' on the 210 meg disk and the 130 left
- : for thesis, docs, misc. files that are used with the above apps. This means
- : moving almost everything to the new drive. Here are the steps I plan, please
- : comment on whether they are possible or not. By the way I will have no
- : boot manager or such here, straight OS/2.
-
- you might consider a tip i picked up from someone here and also have a
- small (in my case 2Mb) partition which i used the seboot20 on to make a
- bootable mini os2 system. then, if things go badly wrong, or if you
- need to shrink .ini files etc you can boot up a basic system faster and
- easier than digging out your installation disks.
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