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Douglas M. MacFarlane (madmac@ils.nwu.edu) wrote:
> 
> There is one correction to my previous posting.  One must actually install
> OS/2 in order to format the drive as a FAT file-system.  You don't have to
> install it on that drive, but you do need to have OS/2 installed in order
> to run the OS/2 format program.  If someone finds a way around that, I'd
> like to know, but I do like OS/2, so I don't need to worry about it.  I
> just attach disks to my computer, partition and format them for DOS folks,
> and then give them the drives back.

Shouldn't it be possible to make an OS/2 boot disk (using eg MAKEBOOT.EXE)
and making sure the fdisk and format programs are copied to it) You won't
need HPFS support so you will have more floppy space for utils. Look on
ftp-os2.nmdu.edu or software.watson.ibm.com for such programs.

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.