OS/2 Install problem, solved!

[Brian Morrison]

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On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 13:16:07 -0400, Jonathan B. Bayer wrote:

>On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 18:08:17 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:
>
>>Hmm, probably down to OS/2's fdisk being written before FAT32 was
>>released, it came with Win 95 OSR2 didn't it? That was later than 1996
>>I think.
>
>But it is a stupid bug.  It is obviously not checking bounds, because
>there is no guarantee to the data on a partition, and it obviously is
>doing _something_ which it shouldn't do.

You're right, but on past form I wonder whether Micros~1 might have
deliberately arranged for FAT32 partitions to behave in this way.
Remember the Win32s debacle with the version 1.30 VxD being added for
no other reason than to prevent OS/2 supporting it.


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