[390] in OS/2_Discussion
Re: Warp, Windows, and HPFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Shabsin)
Fri Jan 6 20:09:43 1995
To: John Patterson <jpatter@MIT.EDU>
Cc: os2partners@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 06 Jan 1995 18:25:50 -0500.
<9501062325.AA16338@bolognese.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1995 20:09:11 EST
From: Chris Shabsin <shabby@MIT.EDU>
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|> I must admit defeat. I am trying to partition my hard disk into 3 separate
|> partitions. I want one FAT partition and 2 HPFS partitions. On one HPFS
|> partition, I would like to install WARP. I would like the FAT partition to
|> be the first on the disk, and to install DOS on that. Rather than use the
|> Boot Manager, I would prefer to use Dual Boot. This seems to be entirely
|> impossible, by all methods of trickery that i can come up with.
Okay, let's see what we've got here :)
|> My Priorities are:
|> #1: OS/2 Warp with Windows support on my computer
Easy, right?
|> #2: Said support on the same partition
|> #3: Said partition to be formated with HPFS
Well, you can only install Windows under DOS booted, so it'd have to be done
in a somewhat tricky way. You could install it on your DOS FAT-formatted
partition, and then xcopy it under OS/2 and delete it off the FAT-formatted
partition to get OS/2 to recognize it, then install Windows support using
Selective Install. Note: I've never tried this (although I may try it over
the weekend with my new install at home... I got a new hard drive for
Christmas :)
|> #4: A FAT partition on the hard disk
|> #5: Said FAT partition to be the first primary partition on the disk
These two are easy.
|> #6: Support for DUAL BOOT
|> #7: No BOOT MANAGER??
Not possible if you want OS's on different partitions or OS/2 on an HPFS
partition. However, it is possible to get something sort of like that, where
Boot manager times out after five seconds and defaults to the operating system
selected last time the system was booted. I use that setup myself, I don't
know if that'd be an acceptable alternative to what you want...
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