[Discussion] Commencing Installation

[Thomas Clayton]

James:

Question is thus:
With eCS REQUIRING LVMed drives and my wish to install other than eCS formatted (HPFS) partitions (yeah, including _A_ Win: 2K or XP one) ;

what installation order would YOU recommend?

I _think_ you've done this, right?

Tom C


--- On Tue, 11/17/09, James Cannon <cyberspittle at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: James Cannon <cyberspittle at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Discussion] Commencing Installation
> To: "POSSI Discussion List" <discussion at lists.possi.org>
> Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 8:45 PM
> 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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