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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Installing OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.232816.21321@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Keywords: OS/2, install
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:28:16 GMT
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- In article <BuL0yq.1FH@unx.sas.com> sasghw@pica.unx.sas.com (Greg Wust) writes:
- >I have a friend who wants to install OS/2 2.0 on his existing DOS 5.0
- >system. He currently has the hard disk partitioned into a 32 Meg.
- >drive C and a much larger drive D on which he had all his applications
- >(and data was kept on drive C making for easy backups). He also has
- >DOS on C.
- >Question he posed me which I do not know: In the OS/2 books it talks of
- >using about 40 Meg with 30 or so for the system and the rest for a
- >permanent swap file - can he split the OS/2 apps, system, and swap files
- >onto different drives during install so he will not have to totally
- >backup, repartition, install, and restore his files to make it all fit
- >on C?
-
- Er, not quite. You could choose a trimmed down OS/2 installation to
- get OS/2 into C, then manually UNPACK the applets to Drive D.
- Tedious, but it would work. (Also point the swappath to D --
- controlled in CONFIG.SYS.)
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