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Date:	Thu, 25 Apr 2002 09:49:47 PST7
From:	"Info2SYNass.NET" <Info@SYNass.NET >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: OS2 Maintenance Partititon

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Hi Ray,
thanks for your quick reply with interesting question and
suggestion ;-)

I will put my answers into your text !

>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.

Yes, I know but I do not experiment or play with various OS'es.
My main OS is OS/2 Warp Version 4 FP 15.

>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.

Here are 3 PC's and all have the same topography:
My wife's system and my notebook are set to start with OS/2 in
their
bootmanagers and we do swap to W98 only if really necessary i.e.
for
some very special applications. My power system is having the 2
(PROD and TEST) in primary parttitions but no WIN stuff ;-)
All these systems are connected with P2P and do share a color
printer
on a SMC Barricade Router's parallel port. The router also
connects
all PC's to the internet with a (512/128) Cable Modem.

Your hint with C: FAT is interesting, exspecially since the
BIOS'es
cannot be flashed anymore with floppies ;-(
I have reconsidered but postponed this C: FAT sokution because
first I
want to synchronize the HW of all the systems. With more
synchronized
HW I have to do one system installation only for all the PC's.
This identical system installation will be saved on to a 1.3GB MO
disk.
So I install from there whenever I need it ;-)

>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.

I do not ask how ;-) but very important:
I do all my system maintenance with OS/2 only !!
I do not use ugly WIN stuff to destroy and waste my systems !

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

HW specs have changed very intensively in the past years and I am
not
familiar anymore how and which DOS tool to use today ;-(
So I do not risk anything ;-)

"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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