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- From: stoen@katana.pcpd.hou.compaq.com (Rick Stoen)
- Subject: Re: Boot manager trick. For those interested
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.174043.29642@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com>
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- References: <1992Sep02.191127.29812@donau.et.tudelft.nl> <65365@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 17:40:43 GMT
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- In article <65365@cup.portal.com>, ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
- |> > I prefer to install dos on a (small) C: partition using the FAT system,
- |> > and OS/2 on an extended D: partition using HPFS.
- |>
- |> But if you the decide to hook up a second disk, you will have fun.
- |> The second disk becomes D:, and OS/2 gets very confused (remember all
- |> those things in CONFIG.SYS that refer to D:?).
- |>
- The second disk will only become d: if you put a primary partition on
- it. I have my system setup with OS/2 on an extended partition (D:) and
- when I added a second disk I had no problems.
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