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Date: | Sat, 13 May 2000 19:55:13 PST |
From: | Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com > |
Reply-To: | scoug-help@scoug.com |
To: | scoug-help@scoug.com |
Subject: | SCOUG-Help: Help Desk Request |
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pequod@salisbury.net wrote:
>
> Twin brand-spanking new HDDs (13g & 10g).
>
> Since both HDD are >8.4g, how do I
> install OS/2 Warp 4?
If they're IDE, modify the second diskette of the three-diskette Warp 4
installation set.
Get this self-extracting zip file:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/os2ddpak/idedasd.exe
and follow the README instructions exactly.
Don't forget the instruction to add SET COPYFROMFLOPPY=1 to the
CONFIG.SYS file.
What you're doing is replacing the old 4 GB IDE driver on the
installation floppies with the new "anysize" GB IDE driver. The
COPYFROMFLOPPY line then installs the new driver that you put on the
diskette rather than the old driver that's on the CD.
Oh yeah. Partitions. You have to install OS/2 (and other OS's as well)
so that the entire partition is within the first 8.4 GB of the disk.
That's a limitation of the motherboard BIOS, which is what the bootup
sequence uses to access the hard drive before the operating system (any
operating system) and it's "new big-drive" driver gets loaded. (There
is a BIOS extension and some new booters which get around this problem,
but there are compatibility problems. Keep your boot partitions
completely below 8.4 GB.)
My own Drive 1 partitions are generally like this:
Primary 1: Boot Manager
Primary 2: C: - DOS (great for hardware troubleshooting and System
Commander)
Primary 3: An Extended partition
Primary 4: Not used
The Extended partition:
D: - data (FAT, for the DOS partition)
E: - data (FAT, for the DOS partition)
F: - OS/2 maintenance partition
G: - OS/2 normal boot partition
H: - HPFS
I,J,K,L: - more HPFS
On the other drives, one big Extended partition and _no_ Primary
partitions (primary partitions get drive letters before extended
partitions, which can really mess up your drive letter sequence).
Hope this helps. Holler back if you have more questions.
- Peter
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