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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Installing OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Nov14.003916.1788@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 14 Nov 92 00:39:16 GMT
- References: <8f0jaKa00Vp00C0VgT@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <8f0jaKa00Vp00C0VgT@andrew.cmu.edu> tt17+@andrew.cmu.edu (Trevor Tompkins) writes:
- >I am about to install OS/2 on my computer, but wonder about two ways of
- >doing this.
- >Since some people have had some problems installing OS/2 with existing
- >software on the machine, I wonder if I should back up my Hard drive,
- >reformat it, install OS/2 on the empty machine, then restore the DOS
- >programs in a DOS session of OS/2.
-
- A possible alternative. I assume you are talking about using DOS's
- BACKUP.
-
- >install OS/2 with the DOS software already on there and fix any problems
- >as they arrive.
- >I would like to use the OS/2 file system exclusively, but am afraid to
- >choose that option if I use the second method.
-
- You will not be able to use HPFS without reformatting. HPFS is
- awfully nice to have, in my opinion.
-
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