Installation Overview

This section is an overview of the OS/2 installation program. More detailed information about installation can be found in the OS/2 2.0 Installation Guide.

When users begin the installation of OS/2 2.0, they are asked to make decisions about formatting and partitioning the hard disk. After they answer these prompts, they are presented with a set of graphical installation screens. These screens use the standard Presentation Manager interface and provide feedback on the progress of the installation.

Users can tailor their systems by selecting only those features that are useful to them. They can choose to install all features, a preselected set of features, or only those features that they specify. These choices are further described under the heading "Choosing Features." If users decide not to install certain features, they can add them later, using the Selective Install utility program in the System Setup folder.

The list that follows is an overview of the choices users can make during installation:

NOTE:
For faster turnaround time when multiple printers are connected to a system, select printers that use the same printer driver. Users then can pool (print to two or more ports), enabling a system to select the first available device for each print job.



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