[Discussion] Commencing Installation

[D Burch]

Thomas,
I gave up on multiple OSes some time ago, preferring to have Windows on 
a separate machine entirely. But when I did have them all together, I 
found that that other than DOS, W2000 or WXP, like OS/2 (up to eCS 
1.2R), could be put anywhere without any real problems other than you 
may have to reactivate the boot manager partition after the windows 
installation.

Why you would even think that have multiple installs of eCS is your 
business, but totally unnecessary unless you have some passion to try 
and understand the inner workings of each. I think that if you stop at 
Warp 4.52 you will be happy. eCS is a "windowsization" project that is 
piling features on top of OS/2 but not  really enhancing the basic 
engine to the point where we can use it almost exclusively as we could 
in the pre-W95 days.
 
I did find that when I was evaluating RC 5 & 6 of ECS2.0, something went 
south with boot manager and I was unable to maintain reliable access to 
any partition. I should have known better as RC 5&6 are test software. 
So don't install these on your working machine.

I do not recall any problems with LVM up to ECS1.2R. I always had 
sufficient space on my drive which would allow me to install the 
latests. Once I was happy with it I would delete the previous version 
and carry on.
When I decided to play in the litter box (MAC Leopard) in February I 
shut down  my OS2 and Windows  boxes. I still have them as well as a 
nice HDMI KVM switch. I recently scored a dual cpu Tyan 386 board on 
eBay, so I am going to try a standalone RC6 install and see what 2 CPU's 
are like.
Don't know if this helps.

Don
 

Thomas Clayton wrote:
> 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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