New to OS/2. I have been reading various postings about installing on large hard drives. I am trying to install on a 40GB drive. I have gotten up to an 8GB boot partition using HPFS. We have a customer who wants at least 20. Is this possible? I have installed FixPack 15 and printed just about any article I can find. Am I missing something?? Can anyone point me to a How-To for a newbie like me?

I found this one: http://computing.net/os2/wwwboard/forum/1015.html and this one: http://computing.net/os2/wwwboard/forum/1182.html

Well, I solved my problem and I am responding to my own query: 1). Make a diskcopy of the Disk #1 from the OS/2 install set. (Disk #1 is the 2nd disk) 2). Download Idedasd.exe and copy the two files to Disk #1 as directed in the idedasd readme file. 3). Install OS/2 as usual but select 2. Advanced and specify your partition as 8032 MB and installable. 4). Install the NIC drivers during the installation, I think its easier. 5). When OS/2 boots for the first time the OS will only show 4GB available. 6). Download Fixpack 15 and copy to a directory you will create and execute with install.cmd 7). When you reboot you will now show 8GB partition. 8). Using PQMagic 6.0 you can resize your partition to the desired size. I tried PQMagic V. 4.0 as suggested on other posts but it didn't work. I understand 7.0 works too but HPFS support was removed beginning with v. 8.0 Hope this will save someone else some grief best, Larry

FYI: HPFS has a logical limit of 64GB. Also, if you installed FP15, the updates should have been installed also (IDEDASD); how you described OS/2 reacting with setting only the 8GB partition was strange. The last time I installed Warp 4 with the IDEDASD fixes, I was able to set a 20GB HPFS partition with no fixpack installed (although, no guarentee that the unfixpacked W4 would work properly until FP13 or higher was installed). The only Partition Magic that works properly with HPFS is v3.0 in my experience and good luck finding that. I haven't been able to find a good legal copy for a very long time. I'm now using OS/2 Warp Server (v4.5) and am finding it to work very nicely, except for a odd display bug with the S3 Savage 4 video card I have installed. Glad to see you fixed your own problem. :) There's several mailing lists on Yahoo I'd recommend joining: os2conect (spelled correctly) is one of them. --Sean