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- From: hayesb@yvax.byu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Running 2.0 and 2.1 on the same machine
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.123342.1352@yvax.byu.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:33:42 GMT
- References: <1k6d7gINNmf5@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>
- Organization: Brigham Young University
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- In article <1k6d7gINNmf5@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>, jwh@citi.umich.edu (Jim Howe) writes:
- > I have a machine which has three disk partitions set up.
- > One partition contains OS/2 2.0 GA+SP, one contains
- > OS/2 2.1 beta and the third contains my user data.
- > Can someone tell me if there will be any complications
- > with alternatively running the 2.0 and 2.1 versions?
- > Each OS/2 partition has its own Desktop directory, so
- > I realize that any Desktop changes made while running
- > one version will not be reflected when the other version
- > is running. I'm more concerned about the EA's that
- > get stored with the directories in the common partition.
- > If I add objects to a folder which resides in the common
- > partition, what will happen when I run the other version
- > of OS/2. Will the system get hopelessly confused about
- > which objects reside where? Are there other potential
- > configuration problems? Experiences and comments
- > are welcome. Thanks.
- >
- >
- >
- > James W. Howe internet: jwh@citi.umich.edu
- > University of Michigan uucp: uunet!mailrus!citi.umich.edu!jwh
- > Ann Arbor, MI 48103-4943
-
- I installed 2.1b on an HPFS partition, with OS/2 2.0+GA on a separate FAT
- partition and DOS+Windows on my primary partition. I just did this last night
- and haven't had to use it too much, but it seems to work fine. One thing I did
- though was change the SWAPPATH= in the config.sys on the 2.0 partion to use the
- same path as my 2.1b partition. Haven't tried it yet, but we'll see how it
- works.
-
- Bryan
- hayesb@yvax.byu.edu
- >
-