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Date:	Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:37:48 PST8
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Dell PC has arrived - now for the customization with eCS!

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Colin Campbell wrote:

> I need to reduce the C: drive in size, and use the free space to build
> some other partitions. I have Partition Magic 6.0, and I downloaded and
> registered DFSee 6.17 today (on my older PC).
>
> I'll probably create an NTFS "data" partition, a FAT or FAT32 (or both)
> partition for sharing files between Windoze and eCS, and a couple of HPFS
> partitions for eCS and for data. I plan to leave some free space, so that
> I can add a JFS partition or whatever down the road.
>
> How should I go about modifying the hard drive so that I can install eCS
> 1.2 and the "good" software for OS/2?

Steven replied:

> If you have been reading along on the list, you might recall that it is
easier to reduce the size of the partition before installing. > After you
install and the install converts the partition to NTFS, you need to use the
most recent version of PM to have a > chance of a resize working.

And Steven is quite correct, of course. MS altered the NTFS spec a number
of times, and you can get into a world of hurt by not being up to date on
that. Go for PM-8, or whatever the last ver. released happens to be. I
have an unopened pkg. of this, somewhere. (Tony has a patch for this, which
I need to remember to ask him for.).

Some other suggestions: XP is such a H O G the size of Texas, you
probably want to allocate a boot partition for it of around 10G. (I thought
3G. should be enough for W2K, and now I'm really sorry I didn't make them 4
or even 5.) Get your Win stuff well squared away before you start in with
eCS. You want to do all of your PM manipulations _before_ you do any of the
eCS or LVM-related stuff. After that, I think PM is verboten, and you'll
need to rely on DFSEE from that point on. And DFSEE still cannot do certain
things, like enlarge a FAT-32 partition. I've run into a situation with the
hard drive in the Shuttle, where the last partition is a FAT-32 partition
that was 10G in size, but now I'd like to take it out to 17G, and I can't do
that with DFSEE. It would (now) have to be done with the Disk Administrator
tool in W2K. That makes me nervous -- re the possible fate of all the HPFS
partitions on the drive -- so I don't want to attempt it until I have cloned
this drive . . . which task is on my To Do List. (If you are going to be
putting tons of work into the setup of a multi-OS hard drive -- and esp.
given the reliability questions and much lower cost of hard drives these
days -- this is something I strongly recommend.)

> Also, is anyone interested in "playing" with this nice PC along with me,
> either in person or via e-mail?

I'd say 'Yes' to either, with a caution that I'm hardly in your Top 10 of
technical resources, and that I'm out of town at the moment.

Jordan

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