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Date:	Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:48:11 PST7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: OS2 Maintenance Partititon

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Why are you putting OS/2 in primary partitions? You can have as many
versions of OS/2 in as many logical partitions as you care to create.
And they will coexist with Win9x in the only primary; C:. If you make
C: FAT you can also put real DOS there as well, it makes a great
maintenance system.

There is one dumb trick that can get you into trouble; allow a Win
utility to mess with your OS/2 partitions. Don't ask how I know.

However, I have for years used DOS Norton Speed Disk, running under real
DOS to defrag OS/2 FAT partitions.

Ray

"Info2SYNass.NET" wrote:
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> Hello
> one solution of my OS/2 Maintenance Partition looks like
> following:
>
> HDD1 (this is a small disk only used as system disk)
> ---------
> Partition 1 / primary C: WIN98 / FAT
> OS/2 Bootmanager
> Partition 3 / primary C: OS/2 PROD / HPFS
> Partition 3 / primary C: OS/2 TEST / HPFS
>
> HDD2 (big disk for non system use, except for the Maintenance
> Partition)
> ---------
> Partition 1 / primary D: FAT or HPFS: OS/2 Maintenance Partition
> Partition 2 / logical E: HPFS: Applikations & Programs
> Partition 3 / logical F: HPFS: Files (Down- & UpLoads and
> Transfers)
> Partition 4 / logical G: HPFS: Generation
> Partition 5 / logical H: HPFS: Home for user data
>
> Main OS is OS/2 ...
> ... WINxx is used only for some really special purposes !
>
> Both OS/2 environments are Warp 4 with FP15.
>
> Absolutely NO experiments are allowed in the PROD environment.
> So experiments and system test are done in the OS/2 TEST
> environment only and
> only positive test experiences will be introduced into the PROD
> environment !
>
> The Maintenance Partition in primary D: can be generated in few
> ways:
>
> a) Performance Plus V 4.0
> b) BootOS
> c) Created "System Utility Disks" from OS/2 System / System Setup
> Folder
> d) normal but slim OS/2 Warp installation from original CD-ROM
>
> My personal favorite is "d)" but kept on FP10 resp. 12 !
>
> With this system environment I am able to work under all
> conditions from:
> PROD or TEST, or rarely WINxx and even with the Maintenance
> Partiton too.
> After failing experiments in TEST I recreate the TEST environment
> from PROD
> with Drive Image ;-)
>
> Hope you like this idea ...
> ... I like to learn from your ideas and suggestions ;-)
>
> svobi
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