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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Making a hardcard, the boot drive for OS/2
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.035408.16675@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 03:54:08 GMT
- References: <1i3btcINNogi@news.umbc.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1i3btcINNogi@news.umbc.edu> gottlieb@umbc8.umbc.edu (Robert Gottlieb) writes:
- >I just installed OS/2 and unfortunately couldn't figure out how
- >to get it to install to my hardcard. I'm using a Quantum Hardcard
- >XL 105. I got the new drivers from their BBS, so at least OS/2
- >will recognize it now. But what I'd really like to do is have
- >OS/2 run off of my hardcard vs my internal hard drive, reason being
- >my hardcard is 9 ms access and my had drive is 28 ms. Anyway, I
- >tried copying all of the files from my c drive (hard disk) to
- >my d drive (hard card) and changing all references to C: in my
- >config.sys and autoexec.bat to d:. This is how I had windows 3.1 running
- >before. This completly hung OS/2. Anyway, my guess is it has to
- >do with the fact that it has to find the driver for the hard card
- >first. Am I on the right track, any ideas?
- >Any responses will be greatly appreciated.
-
- I don't think it can be done at present, but, according to reports on
- CompuServe, it can be done with the OS/2 2.1 beta. Good news.
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