Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!jarthur!uunet!bywater!arnor!larios!db3l From: db3l@ibm.com (David Bolen) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Re: Dual Boot for OS/2 1.2 Message-ID: Date: 15 Nov 90 15:19:44 GMT References: <2462@cod.NOSC.MIL> <4304@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> <1029@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <2463@cod.NOSC.MIL> Sender: news@arnor.uucp (NNTP News Poster) Organization: Laboratory Automation, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Lines: 49 In-Reply-To: bmarsh@cod.NOSC.MIL's message of 14 Nov 90 20:38:39 GMT In article <2463@cod.NOSC.MIL> bmarsh@cod.NOSC.MIL (William C. Marsh) writes: >In article <1029@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> tracy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Phil Tracy) writes: >>Re the discussion on dual boot. The procedure outlined by Hayo Baan >>included a step (1) Partition your disk into one FAT and one HPFS >>partition. He then recommends putting DOS on the FAT and OS/2 on the >>HPFS. I'm just here to say that OS/2 gets along just fine with FAT, >>although there are certain advantages to HPFS. > >Right. My brother (and I for that matter) would like to test out these >'advantages' to the HPFS... Just as a personal suggestion - put DOS and OS/2 both on your FAT partition and then use your HPFS partition for all of your OS/2 software other than the base system (such as compilers, development toolkits, source, etc..). I've installed quite a few OS/2 systems, and I always create at least one FAT partition for DOS-OS/2, and then worry about HPFS. The reason is that if something goes wrong (such as accidentally fouling up your CONFIG.SYS), you'll be able to boot a DOS diskette and make any necessary fixes to even the OS/2 files on C:. If you install OS/2 on the HPFS partition, you'll need to boot the OS/2 installation diskette, ESC back out to the prompt and then play with the disk. Boot time for a DOS diskette vs. the OS/2 installation diskette is significantly different. Plus, if you keep DOS and OS/2 on separate partitions, you'll need to be able to switch which partition is marked as active to be able to boot each system right from the hard disk. I personally love HPFS, and use it as the primary partition for all of my normal operations. I find that keeping all source, compilers and toolkits on an HPFS drive has really sped things up, or at least it feels that way. I do turn on lazy writing as well, which others may or may not want to do. Oh, and since it isn't in my signature - I may work for IBM, but these comments are strictly my personal opinion based on my own experience with installing and using OS/2 systems. -- David -- /-----------------------------------------------------------------------\ \ David Bolen / | Laboratory Automation, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center | / P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 \ | - - - - - - - - - - - - M i t h r a n d i r - - - - - - - - - - - - | | Internet : db3l@ibm.com | Bitnet : db3l@yktvmv | | Usenet : uunet!bywater!arnor!larios!db3l | Phone : (914) 945-1940 | \-----------------------------------------------------------------------/