OS/2 Install problem, solved!

[Jonathan B. Bayer]

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On Mon, 01 May 2000 11:05:45 -0400 (EDT), Larry Ebbitt wrote:

>On Mon, 01 May 2000 08:39:02 -0400, Jonathan B. Bayer wrote:
>
>>I would suspect that this wasn't deliberate on MS's part, because they
>>already won the war.  I think it is more likely it is a bug in fdisk on
>>OS/2.
>
>FDISK sets the correct partition type.  Nothing more should be necessary.

I would agree with the statement:

FDISK is SUPPOSED to set the correct partition type.

Obviously, it is doing something else, even if it is just reading the
disk, which is causing it to trap.


JBB
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