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- From: jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan)
- Subject: Re: Questions for OS/2.2
- References: <1993Jan20.095018.16729@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 00:53:26 GMT
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- mew@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Merlyn) writes:
-
- >I am thinking of switching from DOS/Windows to OS/2.2 but have some questions
- >that i need answering. Any reply would be gratefully received.
-
- I can help with a few questions.
-
- >Firstly, I have a lot of DOS and Windows programs already and I know they
- >SHOULD work O.K. under VDM and WINOS2 But since I have 2 Hardrives I would
- >like to keep one as a DOS disk with FAT and one as an OS2 drive with the HPFS
- >Can I boot from either drive depending on my needs? I heard that you can choose
- >a dual boot option which will either boot OS/2 or DOS.
-
- I don't have experience with two hard drives, but yes, you should be able
- to boot off of two different partitions. Dual boot allows you to install
- OS/2 over the existing DOS partition without erasing your old files. Since
- both DOS and OS/2 reside in the same partition, OS/2 must use the FAT file
- system, since DOS does. There is an option called Boot Manager which allows
- you to boot off of multiple partitions; I think this is what you want.
- Boot Manager itself requires a partition, and must be a primary partition
- on the drive. In this case, you may have to repartition your boot drive.
- (Maybe you can use the second drive for Boot Manager and FAT, copy every-
- thing over, swap drives, and use the current FAT drive for HPFS.)
-
- >If I run OS/2 from a HPFS drive can I still access a normal FAT (DOS) drive as
- >well?
-
- Yes, so long as the HPFS drive is in an extended partition. If it is
- primary, then you cannot access the DOS drive (which also must be primary).
- (The rules are that only one primary partition may be active at any time,
- DOS requires a primary partition, and OS/2 may reside in either a primary
- or extended partition.)
-
- --
-
- Jack Tan If your parents didn't have kids,
- jahk@uiuc.edu chances are you won't either.
-