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From: goldman@mbcl.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Moving OS2 to HPFS after installation?
Message-ID: <315.27bfb70d@mbcl.rutgers.edu>
Date: 18 Feb 91 15:14:21 GMT
References: <1991Feb15.092956.20444@davasun.data.nokia.fi>
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In article <1991Feb15.092956.20444@davasun.data.nokia.fi>, jpk@davasun.data.nokia.fi (JP Koivisto) writes:
> 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...?

My two cents:  If you want to delete the files on the FAT drive C:, boot 
under DOS.  (Actually, I would just RENAME them, in case you need to get them
back.)  

		Adrian
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