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- From: gasman1@netcom.com (David A. Silva)
- Subject: 1G HD Install OS/2 2.1
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.221354.6659@netcom.com>
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:13:54 GMT
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- Just received the 2.1 beta CD. My setup is a 486DX2-50 ISA with AMI bios,
- Adaptec 1542B, Toshiba MK-538FA 1.2G HD, Pioneer DRM604X CDRom, 16 meg
- memory. My pre-existing partitions under DOS 5.0 are 300 meg primary,
- 660 meg extended divided into 2 330 meg logical drives. The config.sys on the
- 2nd disk has "basedev=aha154x.add /ET" for support of the Pioneer as per the
- readme file on the CD. BTW, this is a clean install with no prior OS/2 on
- this particular hard disk.
-
- Using the CDRom install, I get thru the first 2 disks into FDISK. Fdisk
- recognizes 212 meg of free disk space. I install boot manager-which then
- automatically becomes a primary partition. I create a partition in the
- remaining space, and it automatically becomes a primary partition. Fdisk will
- not allow me to set this as installable. I then deleted both these new
- partitions, and assigned the free space as one big extended partition. Fdisk
- then will not allow me to install the boot manager.
-
- I then deleted these partitions again, and booted the OS/2 v2 GA install
- disks. I get to Fdisk, which only sees 64 meg of free diskspace. I install a
- boot manager partition ( which again automatically becomes primary ) and set
- the remaining freespace as a partition ( again, automatically becomes
- primary ). I set the last partition as installable, continue and the screen
- again selects C as the install drive. Entering fdisk again, the last
- partition is not set as installable.
-
- What amm I missing here? Any ideas how to solve this? Thanx - David
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- David A. Silva
- "The Sleeper has awakened" - Mua'dib
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