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From: goldman@mbcl.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: MS LAN Man: HPFS386/DOS compat., non-/dedicated
Message-ID: <328.27cb8759@mbcl.rutgers.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 14:18:01 GMT
References: <6694@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <323.27c8ea45@mbcl.rutgers.edu> <6943@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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In article <6943@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, lairdkb@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird) writes:
> In article <323.27c8ea45@mbcl.rutgers.edu> goldman@mbcl.rutgers.edu writes:
>>In article <6694@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, lairdkb@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird) writes:
>>> I noticed that by using HPFS386 (and local security) I give up my ability
>>> to use the DOS box.  It makes sense to me that OS/2 1.3 is designed around
>>You don't have to give up the DOS box if you don't want to.  What you can do
>>is use the old (286-specific) version of HPFS, and then change the
> 
> Yes, but then I lose local security unless I'm misunderstanding the docs.  Also
> the docs keep stating something like "And if your partition was already HPFS
> formatted, installation will reformat it as HPFS386..."  Whoa!  Sounds scary to
> me!  I'm going to backup everything before I start.

Yes, you do lose local security if you go back to the 286-specific version 
of the HPFS. That didn't matter for me (I needed the DOS box more).  I also
did boot with the DOS box & the HPFS386; it complained on boot, but
the OS/2 & Lan Man did come up all the way.  You might try that, but you
may get unexpected crashes.

Adrian