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Installing OS/2 on 320GB disk

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karotlopj:
How should I go about partitioning and installing OS/2 on a 320GB disk?

I don't think I can create a bootable partition using the whole disk. Is that correct? I read something about a 1024 cylinder limit which I didn't understand.

Matt Walsh:
Just partition it as JFS bootable if you have eCS 2 or above.  If you only have OS/2 Warp 4 you'll have to use HPFS and 64 gig is the limit there.  HTH
Matt W.

Pete:
Hi John

You may want to consider splitting the drive into several volumes eg:-

boot - smallish volume for OS installation, 2Gb is more than enough space
data - probably the biggest volume; 320-2(boot)-100(apps)=218Gb?
apps - large enough for current apps plus space to spare for future apps - 100Gb?

Obviously size of volumes is something you will have to decide.

The above allows you to update/totally trash the boot volume without any worrying about your data and installed apps. Of course, you should still make regular backups of *all* volumes just in case of disk failure.


Regards

Pete


 

Greggory Shaw:
This layout takes care of most things needed.

http://os2notes.net/os2installing.html

karotlopj:

--- Quote from: Matt Walsh on April 29, 2016, 06:13:26 pm ---Just partition it as JFS bootable if you have eCS 2 or above.  If you only have OS/2 Warp 4 you'll have to use HPFS and 64 gig is the limit there.  HTH
Matt W.

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I have been unable to create a 320GB partition on the disk using LVM.

I do have the JFS add-on from ARCA NOAE so that I can create a bootable JFS drive but creating the partition is the problem.

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