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- From: hildajk1@netnews.jhuapl.edu (Ken Hildabolt)
- Subject: Re: beta 2.1+reformat
- Message-ID: <C0KFEE.Dpo@netnews.jhuapl.edu>
- Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory
- References: <1993Jan9.011208.2793@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:39:50 GMT
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- jdowdal@wam.umd.edu (John Dowdal) writes:
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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
-
- >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)
-
- >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.....
-
-
- >John
-
- I installed the beta 2.1 over GA + SP + UHPFS + TRID32 NEW. Its size for
- my system (16 megs) is 55,591K. Hope this helps.
-
- Ken
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- Ken Hildabolt
- The Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Laboratory
- hildajk1@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu CIS: 70674,1657
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