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To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (778)4/23/1998 11:18:00 AM
From: Greg Jung   of 1600
 
Mixed OS installations:

I don't recall now all the details, I have a 2.1 gig drive
partitioned:
boot manager
C: FAT16 win 95 (400 MB) primary
C: FAT16 win 3.1 (180 MB) alternate primary ----------------------------------
FAT (data) extended partition
HPFS OS/2
Linux(s)

This was quite a trick to accomplish, and at some point
Win 95 crashed and burned - wiping out the formatting of the drive it was resident on. I attributed the cause to use of the 16-bit DOS window (XCOPY) simultaneous with other things, etc. etc, and I may have tried a redirection to nil: so you can't blame the simpleton for committing suicide. The remarkable thing about Microsoft technology,
when it was in its death throws (window fragments from the screen) it came up with a clean window telling me of a sever error which finished,
"You will have to reinstall windows"

Sure enough, it was right! The partition was completely hosed.

In order to create the logical partition at the end I needed to boot into linux (via floppy). Once partitions are created then OS/2 can
access them (however I needed another trick with that, to get an updated file onto the boot disk for surpassing the 1GB limit). All told I suppose it took 3 whole days over a span of two weeks.

Greg
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