[Discussion] Commencing Installation

[James Cannon]

Hi Thomas,
 
I think it would be easier to install OS/2 Warp 4 on the whole system. :-D


Sincerely,
James Cannon

--- On Mon, 11/16/09, Thomas Clayton <topcatdrc at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Thomas Clayton <topcatdrc at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Discussion] Commencing Installation
To: "POSSI Discussion" <discussion at lists.possi.org>
Date: Monday, November 16, 2009, 2:12 PM


Dear POSSI:

I thought of en-Title-ing this letter;
Commencing Installation: What Comes First? Whose on Second? et cetera.
;-)

FINALLY, getting around to installing OpSyses onto my "new" computer. I'm intending to have:

Bootmanager (Primary, first drive)

Either, DR/Novell DOS (32MB or 128MB Max) OR 
Win99 (w/ its MS-DOS "8"; 512MB max, Primary C:)
I might SKIP this entirely - in light of the Win NT 5 or 6 that comes later;

IBM Warp 4 FxPak 15 (because I know it well enough to figure out glitches from the new Hw,
it's the easiest one (for me!) to install of the OS/2-eCS versions I have,
AND to see how FAST it goes on this new hardware), (512MB, ?Which volume is to be later deleted and its space ("Partition Magic-ally"?) combined with an / the eCS volume?)

One (or Three?) eCS volumes. I've got copies of eCS 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 - I think! (No 1.2R - yet!)
I may / could replace one, with the next, with the next?? That way I'd need only one partition / volume. BUT any one of these REQUIRE that NEW (to me!) way of "partition"ing one's hard disk drive (HDD): LVM.
(512MB --> 2,048MB required minimum plus swap w/ spare space PER installation volume)

Lastly, for OSes, a Win2K (or WinXP) volume just to "foul up" the system ;-) . (NTFS, 8 - 15 GB s)

ALL OS/2-eCS volumes are to be HPFS (NO JFS, etc.!) Programs and Data are to be in separate volumes from their OSes - EXCEPT for the MS-Win stuff which practically REQUIRES them to be on the same volume. Hence the very large NTFS volume.


For Hw, I've got an AHA-29160N controller with four IBM Ultrastar 18GB U160 HDDs with a fifth spare. (SCSI IDs = 0,1,2,3) There are two compact optical disc (COD) drives: a Toshiba SD-M1401 (10xV, 40xA) RO-DVDD (SCSI ID = 4) and a Plextor PX-1210S 12x 10x 20x RW-DADD (SCSI ID = 5). Residing in the case but NOT connected is an old HP 2(4C)GB tape drive (SCSI ID = 6). Available to me is a third COD which is a Toshiba XM-6401 (40x) RO-DADD. 
(Cf. seperate letter already to follow; "Already A Boot Problem")

My guesses are:
First, Install Boot Manager on first HDD (SCSI ID = 0);
Second, Create a Primary "DOS" partition on first HDD;
Third, Create extended partition on first HDD

THEN - I'm stumped.
Warp 4 into a Primary on second HDD?
OR
Win 2K on rest of first HDD?
Win2K onto Primary on second HDD?
Which comes first: WinNT or Warp 4 - OR eCS?

When installing eCS, HOW do I LVM so that "previously" installed OSes are still available?

DOES it 'mess them up' - or not?


Sincerely,

Thomas Clayton

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