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From: cur022@zodiac.ukc.ac.uk (Bob Eager)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: OS/2 UPDATE, 3 partitions
Message-ID: <20860.268166b6@zodiac.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Jun 90 00:30:46 GMT
References: <7402.2680db9c@me.chalmers.se>
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <7402.2680db9c@me.chalmers.se>, jasv@me.chalmers.se writes:
> Do anyone out there know how to install OS/2 on a system with
> three partitions? One C: HPFS (40MB) with OS/2 1.2 on it, one
> C: FAT (5MB) with DOS 4.01 on it and one D: FAT (75MB) with DOS
> and OS/2 documents on it. I recently got an update to the
> swedish version of 1.2 but the installation program ceep
> telling me that it cant install on a partition with less than
> 12 MB. I have 30 MB free on the HPFS partition!

I suspect that it wants a FAT partition for the boot partition, and it is
interpreting what it finds in the HPFS as a very full FAT system!

> 
> I tried to install it "by hand" but dont know how to create
> DISPLAY, OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI

I can only speak for IBM 1.2, but this bit is easy. DISPLAY is a copy of
whatever DLL you need for your display (in my case, IBMVGA.DLL). You also
need to do some SETs in CONFIG.SYS, but these are documented in the IBM
manual "Using Advanced Features" which comes with OS/2. It also tells you
about the MAKEINI program which makes new .INI files from .RC files. Pick
the right .RC files from the installation disk - the names for your system
should be fairly obvious.

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