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- From: opheys@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de (Thomas "Sledge" Opheys)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Putting 2.1 onto another partition
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 09:27:55 GMT
- Organization: University of Passau, Germany
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- References: <JEFF.93Jan19133601@claw.clearpoint.com>
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- In article <JEFF.93Jan19133601@claw.clearpoint.com> jeff@claw.clearpoint.com writes:
- >I would like to be able to install the 2.1 beta onto a 400 MB
- >partition on my second hard-disk. Can I add this to the boot manager
- >and boot from the second (SCSI) disk instead of the first (IDE) disk.
- >
- >My configuration is:
- > 33 MHz '386 with 16 MB memory
- > 212 MB Western Digital "Piranna" IDE drive.
- > 80 MB is FAT with DOS, the rest is HPFS with OS/2 2.0
- > Adaptec 1520 SCSI controller (bios disabled)
- > 1.2 GB Fujitsu M2266H with 400 MB in HPFS (I haven't touched
- > the rest of the drive yet, but I have plans for it for
- > later)
-
- No problem to install OS/2 2.1 onto a system already running 2.0.
- No problem with the boot manager.
-
- But be careful when you use one of the OS/2 versions to work on the
- partition of the other one. What happened to me was: Under 2.1, I
- tried to display my 2.0 partition's OS!2 2.0 Desktop hierarchy (in
- expectation to see my 2.0 desktop :-( ), using the Drives object.
- No icons were displayed, so I exited the icon view of Drives (without
- doing anything, arrange or so). That was eough to confuse all 2.0
- folders I touched with 2.1 Drives: When I booted 2.0, my Desktop and
- my Command Prompts icons were in a *great* disorder. Only the object and
- window positions were affected, so a simple rearrange did it. No harm,
- but better stay away from doing this too often...
-
- Thomas
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