From: Andrew Webber (awebber_at_sgml-mercs.com)
Date: Sun Apr 11 1999 - 20:31:54 EDT
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999 19:55:57 -0400, Andrew Webber wrote:
>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).
Err, I meant to say that if you have the same OSR2 that I do, you
might have trouble creating a FAT32 partition. I don't think an
earlier Win95 would recognize a FAT32 partition created by
Partition Magic (or am I wrong about that too? :)
andrew
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