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- From: landis@sugs.tware.com (Hale Landis)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Hard Disk Partioning Question
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <720999547snx@sugs.tware.com>
- References: <1992Nov5.160546.5862@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 92 21:39:07 GMT
- Organization: SUGS
- Lines: 27
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- In article <1992Nov4.164520.1292@u.washington.edu> rene@hardy.u.washington.edu > (Rene Magritte) writes:
- >
- >
- > I plan to install OS/2 2.0 on my system in days. I need to
- >know this: if I install it with the FAT arrangement, and using the
- >Boot Manager so I have the choice of DOS or OS/2, can the hard disk I
- >install it on have stuff on it prior to my full install? In other
- >words, can I put a bunch of junk on it, and then put OS/2 along with
- >that other junk? Perhaps I need to use FDISK to make some
- >partitions, huh? If so, somebody post me a good partitioning scheme
- >to use. Thanks.
-
- You can simply install OS/2 in your existing FAT C: partition as long
- as you have 45MB of free disk space. Just boot the OS/2 install
- floppy and don't repartition or reformat anything. When done you
- will have a C: drive with both DOS and OS/2. Use the BOOT program,
- in the C:\OS2 directory, to switch between OS/2 and DOS. Yes, this
- program runs under both DOS and OS/2. In OS/2, there is an ICON
- to run BOOT. Under DOS, just run it from the DOS command line.
-
- This method of installation is called 'Dual Boot' and does not use
- the 'Boot Manager' (the other and more complex method).
-
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