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Date:	Sat, 4 Jun 2005 20:46:29 PDT7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: multipole OS'es / advice & guidance sought

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i-lists wrote:
> Hello SCOUGians
> After long silence I am back again and hope for your help.
>
> I am changing a bigger HDD in my notebook and would like to
> have multiple OS'es on it !
>
> i) WIN XP (leaving as original installation)
> ii) OS/2 Warp 4.52 as main & primary OS
> iii) Linux as additional OS for learning
>
> My intended partitioning looks like following:
>
> 1st prim C: NTFS/H WIN XP
> OS/2 BM
> 2nd prim C: HPFS OS/2 Warp 4.52 (default system)

I have never heard of any justification for putting OS/2 on a primary
partition. Something about "hiding" everything from Windows? Just
don't run Win utilities on your OS/2 partition.

> D: log FAT32 (Data Exchange between all systems)
> E: log HPFS EXEC files
> F: log HPFS FILE (file folders / download, upload)
> G: log HPFS GAR(b)AGE (garbage & maintenance)
> H: log HPFS HOME (user data)
> i: log HPFS IMAG (es DigiCam pics)
>
> plus Linux System partition 5GB
> plus Linux Swap partition500MB
>
> My questions:
>
> What would you recoomend me to do or to change ?

I have had a succession of machines since the mid nineties running
DOS, OS/2 and Win. I have done it using only the bundled boot manager
type utilities. As an academic exercise, it can be done. But those
things tend to be primitive. Get a real boot utility; System
Commander, OS Selector......
>
> How can WIN XP and Linux access these HPFS partitions ?
> If unable: What partition types shall I use to have access with
> all OS's ?

FAT, 16 or 32 is probably the only thing all OSs can see.

Ray

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