[comp.os.os2] beginner questions

kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) (04/13/90)

I have a 386 box on which I recently installed 1.1 EE & PM.  Since I also
run SysV on this box, I have the first 90 meg partition of the C: drive as
unix, with a 10 meg DOS/OS-2 partition.  I have a 60 meg D: drive.  I also
don't have any parallel or serial ports (no printer).  Since 10 meg isn't
enough to run OS-2, I want to use D: as the default drive.  After finishing
installation, I copied the entire \OS2 tree onto the D: drive, and edited
CONFIG.SYS to reference the D: drive.

How do I do the following:

1.  Move C:\OS2\DLL\4201.DRV to the D: drive?  Although I copied it to D:,
    when I attempt to delete it from C:, I get a message stating that it
    is in use by another process.

2.  Stop the messages that keep popping up in PM which say that the spool
    directory is full?  It's not, I checked, and I certainly haven't printed
    anything.  Remember, I don't have a printer, not even a parallel port.

3.  Have the full screen protected mode shell, and the window protected mode
    shell default to the D: drive?  If I use a STARTUP.CMD file, I get a
    window protected mode shell that is on the D: drive, but if I start new
    shells from the task manager, they default to the C: drive.

4.  DISKCOPY a non-DOS disk?  I tried to use DSKCPY2 and DISKCOPY to copy
    one of my UN*X disks, and I kept getting device failure messages.  There
    is nothing wrong with my drive.  Both work fine if the disk is a DOS or
    OS-2 disk.  Is OS-2 really brain dead in this respect.  I had to boot
    DOS from a floppy to DISKCOPY my U*IX disk.

Thanks in advance.

kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov            Jet Propeller Labs
Kaleb Keithley

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