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Date:	Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:31:10 PST8
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Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Round 3 with 1.2R: frustrating weekend

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Hi Ray & SCOUGians
Your suggestion starting with the Backup is a good idea !

I do have a somewhat similar workout on my experimental system:

Disk1 / C1 prim / HPFS: OS/2 Aqua (Backup of Fire)
Disk 1 / BM prim
Disk 1 / C2 prim / HPFS: OS/2 Fire (working OS)

Disk 2 APPS & DATA

Generally I install and work with Fire and very frequent Fire is
mirrored =

to Aqua with DriveImage.

Like this Aqua always contains a clean and tested OS/2 environment with
all =

individual WPS layouts and settings, including to APPS and DATA ;-)

If an experiment (on Fire only !!!) fails or another new installation
causes some =

difficulty: Aqua deletes Fire and my regular OS is working again within
less =

than 5 minutes ;-))

Like this I have used my OS/2 Warp 4 and later changing to 4.52 for
more =

than 8 years on 3 different systems:
Toshiba T4900CT Notebook / Pentium 75MHz / 40MB RAM / 8 GB HDD
Compaq EP 600a DT / Pentium 3 / 256MB RAM / 20 GB HDD
Selfbuilt DT / AMD XP 1.3MHz / 512MB RAM / 20 & 40 & 75MB HDD's
IBM Thinkpad T30 Notebook / Pentium 4 with 2.4MHz / 1GB RAM / 60 GB HDD

On the Thinkpad I left the original WIN XPP in its first primary C:
squeezed to 15GB and =

then BM in second prim and followed OS/2 in the third prim and
secondary C: =

followed the normal partitoning as usual.
With BM I also could run an additonal installed SuSE 9.x ;-)))

Aqua and Fire are visibly different: Blue and red OS/2 Warp logos at
startup !
The drawers in each are also blue and red !!
Few changes in some other files need to have text to be changed too !!!
All done in another 5.

I am very happy with this solution and always have a backup and
fallback ;-)

Cheers, svob=EF

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raydav@charter.net on 01.03.2006 05.05.03
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Subject: SCOUG-Help: Round 3 with 1.2R: frustrating weekend

J R FOX wrote:

> O.K. so you wanna play hardball ? For the last
> go-'round, I decided to skip the pre-partitioning and
> just try this with a straight install to C: . . . even
> though I don't want this to be on C:. That finally
> worked. So now I get to see what a presumably full
> and finalized install of 1.2R looks like. SNAP went
> on. I think Peer went on, though I have no idea how
> to go about testing this. The Internet, Network, etc.
> folders look like they might be fully populated this
> time. That's the good news, although there is nothing
> much I intend to do with this install, other than
> count it as practice.

First, it installed on a clean primary where it would not on a =

partitioned drive, right. If so that matches much of my experience.

But you still don't quite get it. Don't install it on the drive you =

want to use it on. Don't you have an old, small drive, and a normal =

desktop machine? Make a basic install on that and keep it in storage. =

It's called make the backup first. And don't get so hung up on =

images of partitions. The full, real partition doesn't take much =

longer to copy. And you can actually use it as a boot drive.

But the biggie is; if you wanted it E:, why did you let it be called =

C:? Install LVM lets you give it any drive letter you wish. I have =

now made about six installations to a 3G drive, copied them to a 160G =

storage drive, and then copied the one I wanted to a working drive. =

That way when you - or the gremlins - make a mess of things, you get =

one from storage and start from there. If at some point you get an =

installation that you like copy that to storage and make that your
backup.

Having said that, I did just do a reinstall on my laptop and then =

copied it to a USB IDE drive. But, not until I had done it several =

times on a desktop.

Ray

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