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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:4352 comp.os.os2.misc:28128 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.os2.misc Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Subject: Re: DOS + OS/2 2.0 + 386bsd 0.1 installation ..... References: <1992Aug28.220423.9273@umr.edu> Date: 31 Aug 92 10:05:53 GMT Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Sender: @unidui.uni-duisburg.de Message-ID: <veit.715255553@du9ds3> Lines: 40 In <1992Aug28.220423.9273@umr.edu> jlu@cs.umr.edu (Eric Jui-Lin Lu) writes: >Dear netters, >I have browsed thru the FAQs without any luck, although I think this >question should be mentioned somewhere. If I missed something, please >no flame. >After spending nights of reformats, reboots, and reinstallations, I >kinda came out a wierd combination of DOS, OS/2, and 386bsd in one >hard disk. I used os-bs as the boot manager and its menu looks >like DOS -- part 0, OS/2 part 1, and 386bsd in part 3. Partition 2 >is for logical HPFS OS2. I'm not quite satisfied with this. Since >when I choose OS/2, OS2 boot manager menu comes up. I wish to >eliminate this OS/2 boot manager totally. Is there a way to do >this? (this will save me another ~1.5MB.) Thanks! >--Eric >--jlu@cs.umr.edu >-- >***************************************--- Grad. student ---* >* Obviousness is always the enemy of * \ Jui-Lin Lu (Eric) / * >* correctness. -- Bertrand Russell * / jlu@cs.umr.edu \ * >***************************************--- Univ. of Missouri-Rolla ---* I think there is an option in OS2 fdisk to enable or disable boot manager, and to delete the partition. However, it is nearly impossible to recombine the free space to any of the adjecent partitions on the disk without remaking the corresponding filesystem. As a replacement for the boot manager, there are different flavors of boot managers available (should be something about that in the FAQ(?)). Holger -- | | / Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | BITNET: veit%du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de@UNIDO | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | "No, my programs are not BUGGY, these are | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | just unexpected FEATURES"