said:
>
[...snip...]
> Yes.
>
> >And the corollary, that either condition not
> >satisfied means you can't get it?
>
> Yes. However, lack of BIOS support is very unlikely if the MB is truely
> ancient.
Umm .. not quite a typo but did you mean to say lack of BIOS support is very
unlikely *unless* the MB is truely ancient. And how ancient? I tend to run
fairly old machines in general.
> >2) Is there a way to tell in advance that the BIOS will or will not
> >permit beyond 8GB boot? This will definitely affect my partition
> >planning.
>
> See:
>
> http://www.tavi.co.uk/os2pages/extdisk.html
Thanks for the ref. I've downloaded but travel to NYC calls. I'll look soon.
> >I know in the conservative option, it doesn't seem like much of a
> >difference but I'd like to have a large main boot partition. The
> >ambitious option would really work best for me.
>
> I still prefer a smaller boot partition.
>
> You might consider
>
> C: 1GB HPFS boot
> D: 6GB JFS apps
> E: 1GB HPFS maint
> F: 1GB FAT dump
> G: ?GB JFS
This only works with the > 8GB support but it looks like this won't be a
problem. However, doesn't the FAT dump always need to be within 8GB? Also, I
assume only C: would be primary and the rest on an extended?
> Boot contains apps that I consider integrated into the OS. This means I
> want to backup and restore them as a unit.
Another concern is what Back Again workstation will support (I admit, not part
of the original requirements ... call it requirements creep). They don't
restore to JFS unless you get the server version, I believe. I would have
thought that it's only because of its ability to recreate the partitions is
limited - does file-by-file restore care what the disk format is?
> Regards,
>
> Steven
Thanks again.
-Rocky
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