[Discussion] Commencing Installation

[Thomas Clayton]

OK,

but

Which Comes First? Whose ON Second?


Tom Clayton

In olden times, BM, DOS/Win or (approx. the same Win9x), then Warp.



--- On Wed, 11/18/09, 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: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 8:30 PM
> I
> would install the other OSes first. Boot manager can go
> anywhere.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> James Cannon
> 
> --- On Tue, 11/17/09, Thomas Clayton
> <topcatdrc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> From: Thomas Clayton <topcatdrc at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Discussion] Commencing Installation
> To: "POSSI Discussion List"
> <discussion at lists.possi.org>
> Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 10:21 PM
> 
> 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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