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- From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: The DOS 6.0beta OS/2 message.
- Message-ID: <hatton.727752137@cgl.ucsf.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 01:22:17 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.225231.7398@gw.wmich.edu>
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- Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
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- x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu writes:
- > Okay, here is what DOS 6.0 apparently tells you if you have
- >OS/2 installed on a FAT partition. Judge for yourselves if you think it
- >is unfair or not:
-
- >"WARNING: SETUP has detected OS/2 files on the drive. Although you may
- >still install MS-DOS 6.0, these files take up a large amount of disk
- >space. You may also make your OS/2 partition unusable by installing
- >MS-DOS 6.0. See GETTING STARTED in your manual for details."
-
- Nice choice of wording; it's ambiguous enough that one can interpret that
- DOS6 "take[s] up a large amount of disk space."
-
- Plus it might make the OS2 partition unusable. I'd say abort that DOS6
- install, now, before things get worse.
-
- :-)
-
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- Tom Hatton
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