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In <3lcf2q$j93@newsflash.concordia.ca>, ishmael@cs.concordia.ca (It's ME!!!) writes:
>In article <682298720wnr@rosebery.demon.co.uk>,
>Brian Sheehan <Brian@rosebery.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>I understand the following is possible buy don't know how 
>>to do it - pointers to a faq would be useful if this is 
>>well covered, if not, oh bugger.
>>
>	I have crossposted this response to comp.os.os2.setup, where you can get
>help.
>
>>I have a big 850mb enhanced IDE hard disk which I will have 
>>to reformat to 500mb approx under dos (my motherboards too 
>>old to support the full amount). This will leave me approx 
>>300mb free which I understand can be used for a second 
>>partition into which I can put an operating system like 
>>OS/2. I dammed if I can understand how to do this?
>>
I have a 540 HD, when installing OS/2 you must install it on a partition that doesn't 
exeed 515 (I think) otherwise you won't be able to set it as bootable, it will install
though, cause this happened to me. I installed Warp and tried to make it bootable 
using fdisk, but it wouldn't  let me, the option was faded out!!. You can create
another parition and format it with the rest of the space left on the HD. I read 
somewhere that this has to do with cylinders. To boot OS/2 the HD must be under 
1024 cylinders I think. At any rate this is my experence with installing Warp 

Hope this helps.

>
>	You will have to install boot manager.This program comes with OS/2;it 
>must have its own primary partition (1Meg) and the partition must be the first
>one on the disk.When your system boots, instead of starting an operating system,
>it starts boot manager.Boot manager presents you with a menu that lists all the
>OSs on your system.You then choose the OS that you want to go into, and then 
>boot manager starts that OS.
>	Suggestion: install boot manager, then DOS, then OS/2.
>Check the OS/2 manual.I don't know about Warp, but OS/2 2.1 has an installation
>guide that tells you all you need to know about installing OS/2 and boot manager.
>
>~~Ian