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Name: bookworm_2
Date: September 10, 2008 at 17:14:52 Pacific
OS: OS/2 Warp 4
CPU/Ram: PII 450Mhz 768Mb
Product: IBM PC 300PL
Comment:

With the FAT32 upgrade, is it possible to install OS/2 to a FAT32 drive and boot from it? If so, how big can the drive be?



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Name: RobertMfromLI
Date: April 9, 2009 at 23:51:49 Pacific
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No, it is not. OS/2 can only be installed onto an HPFS, HPFS386, or FAT16 (not recommended) partition (with any FAT16 partition needing to be 2GB or less).

eComStation (updated version of OS/2 v4.52) which comes with FAT32 support, can be installed on those and JFS - but again not FAT32.

FAT32 is abysmally slow anyway (in comparison to HPFS/HPFS386/JFS/NTFS/etc), so I am not sure why you would wish to install on it. If it is to share files, then simply create a FAT32 partition as your data partition (ie: partition your disk(s) into at least two partitions - boot/OS and data).

Robert


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