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Date:	Thu, 4 Oct 2007 18:24:02 -0700
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: IFS load

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
>> If straight W4 needs HPFS and Fat32 IFS files, to access HPFS and Fat32
>> partitions, how does it find those files on it's own HPFS partition?
>
> The say way it finds any IFS - by the filespec on the IFS statement.

But it seems like catch 22. If OS/2 cannot access X: HPFS without
loading the IFS, and you tell it to get the IFS from X:, how does it
find X: to get the IFS to load?

For the BASEDEVs does it do a "get from this partition"?
>
>> Would a FAT32 partition between the front of the drive and an HPFS boot
>> partition confuse the drive letters during boot after BASEDEVS?
>
> It depends on when you put it there. If you added it after installing W4,
> it probably will cause a problem. Use dfsee to see what drive letters
> will be assigned.

Every partition has a letter and they are in order.

Ray

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