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- From: claudio.fahey@idcbbs.com (Claudio Fahey)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Primary/Logical Partitions
- Message-ID: <6452.1032.uupcb@idcbbs.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 14:20:00 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: IDC BBS - Alameda, CA - 510-865-7115
- Reply-To: claudio.fahey@idcbbs.com (Claudio Fahey)
- Lines: 39
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- To: slhpv@cc.usu.edu
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- SL> I just read the FAQ, Installation and Planning Guide, and the OS/2
- SL> installation guide (so flame me for being stupid not RTFF, RTFM, RTFIaPG)
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- SL> I want to set up my partitions in the following manner:
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- SL> Name Status Access FS Type MB
- SL> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- SL> Startable : Primary BOOT MANAGER 1
- SL> DOS 5.0 Bootable C: Primary FAT 64
- SL> OS/2 2.0 Bootable D: Logical HPFS 147
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- SL> The question I have is: Since only one primary partition can be active;
- SL> does this mean that OS/2 2.0 (can/cannot) access C: since OS/2 is
- SL> in a logical (not primary) partition?
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- SL> The reason for this approach is the following:
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- SL> 1) All files/programs usable by dos are on FAT
- SL> I can ALWAYS access DOS files (from DOS or OS/2)
- SL> as C:\mydir\file.ext
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- SL> 2) All native OS/2 files/programs are on HPFS
- SL> I can access OS/2 files as D:\mydir\my_nice_long_name
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- SL> If I can't access the primary (C:) from OS/2 are there any suggestions
- SL> as to how my partitions should be set up. I want consistant drive namings
- SL> no matter how I end up running my dos apps!
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- Set it up just as you showed. Boot manager doesn't count as a primary
- partition after an operating system starts. I have my disk partitioned
- almost the same as what you posted and I have all my DOS stuff on
- my C: drive ( in DOS and OS/2 ) and my OS/2 stuff on D:. It works
- very well.
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