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Skriven 2006-05-13 10:40:49 av Sarah Nunez (1:130/604)
     Kommentar till text 71 av Herbert Rosenau (2:2476/493)
Ärende: Install trouble
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12 May 06 08:40, Herbert Rosenau wrote to Sarah Nunez:

 HR> Ups, There can only one BM on the whole system. When you have BM on
 HR> disk 2 you must remove it from there and you must reboot to get that
 HR> in effect before you can install BM on disk 1.

I'm sorry--I guess I wasn't very clear.  BM is on only disk 0, and I'm trying
to install OS/2 on the first partition on disk 1.

 HR> You are sure that the whole partitoning is done in LBA mode?

Yes.

 HR> You are sure that the drives are clearly set up as master/slave?
 HR> Cable select will NOT work.

Why is that?  I've never before heard that it won't work with cable select, but
I'll change them to master/slave and see whether that helps.

 HR> I've given up on FAT32 years ago because crap. When I have to prepare
 HR> windows I use NTFS (same limits than HPFS/HPFS386).

But there's no read-write NTFS file system driver for OS/2.  The only NTFS
driver for OS/2 is read-only, which won't work for me.  I use FAT32 for data
partitions that OS/2, Windoze, and Linux *all* need to be able to see. I
believe there's an HPFS driver for Windoze, but I don't want Windoze to be able
to mess with my OS/2 OS and programs partitions, so HPFS is out.  Besides, I
haven't yet figured out how to update the Linux kernel to also read HPFS
drives.  Needless to say, FAT16 is not even an option.  That leaves me with
only FAT32, such as it is.

 HR> OS/2 before 4.51 is really unable to get installed outside the 1024
 HR> zylinder limit.

This is 4.52, but even so, I'm trying to install to a partition that IS within
the 1024-cylinder limit.

 HR> - create partitons in following sequence

Here's how I'm trying to do it (both drives are 160GiB):

disk 0:

- BM (7.8 MeB = 1 cylinder)
- Win2K (4 GiB FAT32)
- Win Programs (~17 GiB FAT32)
- remainder divided into 32 GiB data partitions

disk 1:

- OS/2 (2 GiB HPFS)
- Linux boot
- Linux swap
- Linux root
- OS/2 Programs (~10 GiB HPFS)
- remainder divided into 32 GiB data partitions

Sarah
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