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MS-DOS, OS/2 Warp Large Hard Drive boot/setup/etc.

deepthaw

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I have a roughly 13GB hard drive that I'm getting ready to back up and install a drive overlay software on. It's a 486DX4/100 with 16MB and Warp 3 ran pretty well previously. I need to get an XTIDE ROM someday, but for now I'm going to stick with Ontrack Disk Manager. I vaguely know there are some weird things about OS/2 and where in the partition map its boot files can, as well as DOS itself. Any tips on how to partition? This would be OS/2 Warp 3.network comm? Last time I did it I did:

10MB Primary Boot Parition with OS/2 Boot Manager
100MB Primary MS-DOS Partition with just the OS
512MB Primary OS/2 Partition
1,500 (or so) MB extended partition with all the shared programs/games that both needed access to.

Can I slipstream any drivers into the install floppies to make OS/2 less picky about its install?
 
You'll need later ide drivers for OS/2. IBM has updated Warp disks or use the Danis IDE drivers which should be on Hobbes
 
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