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- From: jdowdal@wam.umd.edu (John Dowdal)
- Subject: beta 2.1+reformat
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.011208.2793@wam.umd.edu>
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- Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 01:12:08 GMT
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- I have my hard drives set up:
- 212 WD IDE-DRIVE 0:
- 170 meg FAT: dumbOS 5 and windoze
- 40 meg HPFS: OS/2 2.0+SP
- 1 meg boot manager
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- 500 FUJITSU IDE-DRIVE 1:
- 450 meg HPFS: no system; just data/programs
- 50 meg HPFS: OS/2 beta with win-os2 3.1+32 bit GRE (the one from this Fall)
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- Question: I know I must "reformat" to install the new 2.1 beta. Is
- formatting and installing the beta on the 50 meg HPFS on DRIVE 1
- sufficient to make the beta work (ie blow away the "expired" beta),
- or do I have to reformat EVERYTHING? (if it is everything, IBM can keep
- the beta. There is no way I'm going to be able to get about 550 megs
- onto floppies.....
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- John
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