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Hi, I have a IBM ThinkPad 760ELD, and I'm planning to install OS/2 Warp 4 alongside with the pre-installed Win95, all on a 810MB hard disk. The main problem is, the UltraBay, which accepts either the CD-ROM drive or diskette drive, can only use one drive at a time, and it is not possible to hot-swap the two drives. I can't afford to buy the external cradle for the diskette drive. So, I intend to copy all the disk images from the CD-ROM to the hard disk and install using the diskette drive. Now, what I should do, is to defragment the Win95 primary partition C:, and leave about 300MB of disk space for OS/2. I calculated that I would need to install a total of about 92(+20 swap)MB of OS/2 components, and the images are a total of about 193MB. I would then use Partition Magic to shrink the Win95 partition C:, and create a logical drive D: in a extended partition for installation of OS/2. However, I realized that I wanted to format and install on a HPFS drive, and that will complicate matters. I hope somebody can tell me whether the following procedure will work. In order to install on the HPFS D: drive, I first need to run FDISK from the OS/2 diskettes, and format the D: drive, after I have created it using Partition Magic. After the drive is formatted to HPFS, I need to boot to OS/2 and copy the images from the CD-ROM. But then I will need to modify CONFIG.SYS on the OS/2 diskette to recognise the CD-ROM drive. Assuming that that is successfully done, I then copy the files from the CD-ROM drive to the HPFS D: drive. After copying the images, I can then boot off the diskettes again to start installing OS/2 on D: drive, using the images from the same drive (I understand that I have to perform some modifications to the OS/2 diskettes as well, according to the document OSINHDLT dated 11/14/96). Once installation is complete, I can also delete the images from drive D: to reclaim disk space. Phew, any problems with the above procedure? Please comment freely. Also, the procedures described in the first edition of the ThinkPad 760E/760ED User's Guide, pages 184-6, are quite similar to OSINHDLT. Which one should I follow? BTW, does anyone with the same ThinkPad have had problems installing OS/2 Warp, because of the Sanyo 4X CD-ROM drive or Cyber9320 PCI video chipset? Do I need to follow the procedure mentioned in the User's Guide, pages 187-8? Thank you for any help and suggestions. Teng Yan Loke aka Cow | lokety@post1.com | finger 4 PGP key | Quake Electronic & Computer Engr. Ngee Ann Polytechnic Singapore | HP100LX | OS/2 <URL:http://www.arbornet.org/~lokety> => MW2/Myst/SC2K/Relentless Infopages ______________________________________________________________________________