From: Andrew Webber (awebber_at_sgml-mercs.com)
Date: Sun Apr 11 1999 - 19:55:57 EDT
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999 17:31:12 -0500, Barry Marks wrote:
>A way around this is to go to a small computer
>store that will sell you an OEM version. A lot of
>them have them for sale for a fraction of the
>package in the larger stores.
As I had pointed out to me some months ago (and as I've since
discovered), one can use Partition Magic to change a partition from
FAT to FAT32.
If that's the only reason for getting OSR2, it might be cheaper
than Windows, even a break-the-license copy from a small shop.
My TP600 will not create a partition as FAT32 out of the box,
despite running OSR2. I tried when I first got it, and IBM support
told me it's because it's running IBM DOS 7 instead of DOS 6.22
(under the Windows, that is).
Whatever the reason, I've had no trouble changing to FAT32 with
Partition Magic.
andrew
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