🚀 go-pugleaf

Tell me to go to demon.tech.pc if you like, but I thought I would get
you all thinking again is this nice quiet spot.

I've just upgraded with a TX97LE/AMD K6-233/64MB/2*8.4GB disks/IDE
CD/DE-220 NIC/PACE voice modem/etc. 

HD 1 is partitioned thus:

PTN TYPE SIZE  FILE USE
 1  PRI  1cyl       Boot Manager
 2  PRI  2GB   VFAT Win NT 5 system (empty at present)
 3  PRI  2GB   VFAT Win 95 system
 4  LOG  2GB   VFAT Win NT 4 system
 5  LOG  1GB   HPFS OS2 system
 6  LOG  1GB   HPFS OS2 data
 7  LOG  125MB      Linux swap (goes up to cyl 1027)

HD 2 has Win data partitions and will have Linux on it.

I wanted to keep ptn 2 primary, hidden and separate, and usually have
ptn 3 as the active primary. Win programs would be installed on ptns 3
and 4 and be shared between W95 and NT4 if appropriate.

Ok, with the Win 95 ptn active, OS/2 would just not install. It would
run off the install floppies quite happily, including the command prompt
and programs, but on the first reboot to the HD for the GUI part of the
install, the computer would just hang with the blue startup screen. I
checked that the correct updates from the IDEDASD were on the floopies
and the HD.

What made it install was to make ptn 2 active and ptn 3 hidden. 
I had exactly the same problem and solution with the NT4 install.
I guess both Opsyss think that C: is ptn 2 not 3, even if hidden. Both
use C: even if being installed on a logical drive.

So: How do I persuade OS/2 and NT4 to install with ptn 3 as the active
primary partition?

I'll get on to the ip/lan stuff when this is sorted, especially if it
means a complete partition reformat and rearrangement.

Thanks in advance for any help provided.
Chris.
chris@idol.d.c.u