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From: jpk@davasun.data.nokia.fi (JP Koivisto)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Moving OS2 to HPFS after installation?
Keywords: booting HPFS DLLs
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.092956.20444@davasun.data.nokia.fi>
Date: 15 Feb 91 09:29:56 GMT
Reply-To: jpk@davasun.data.nokia.fi
Organization: Nokia Data Systems OY, Helsinki, Finland
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I installed OS2 1.121 on the FAT drive C:.

Then I made a HPFS partition of F: (size 121 MB) after
which I copied (with the FileManager, actually) to WHOLE
C:\OS2 tree to F:\OS2 AND changed the relevant parts in
CONFIG.SYS to point to the new location(s) on F: (LIBPATH,PATH,DPATH,etc)

I seemed so easy, BUT when I tried to boot, OS/2 complained just
about EVERYTHING.

Couldn't find "F:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP" (or VIOTBL.DCP).  Fixed by changing
the CONFIG.SYS to get them from C:\OS2.
Then it couldn't find MSG.DLL, etc...

I added ';C:\OS2\DLL' to END of the LIBPATH and it started working
but when I tried deleting the files in C:\OS2\DLL it always said some
files where in use ALTHOUGH the same files exist in F:\OS2\DLL
WHICH IS BEFORE C:\OS2\DLL in LIBPATH!
However, also some files in F:\OS2\DLL where in use...

I wonder what I did wrong ?  (I just thought: I used the C:\OS2
                              versions of OS2.INI & OS2SYS.INI all the time!)

How does OS/2 boot when the ONLY partition is HPFS ?
From where does it get the HPFS.IFS in that case...?

jpk	- JP Koivisto, Nokia Data OY, Finland
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EMail:	jpk@davasun.data.nokia.fi