Subj : Remote - Local Time synchro
To   : Neil Walker
From : Gerald Miller
Date : Tue Aug 06 2002 09:25 pm

Hello Neil,

  Friday August 02 2002 18:25,
  Neil Walker wrote to Gerald Miller:

 GM>> Care to give me the full echo tagname and I'll request it from my
 GM>> host, who in turn request it 1:140/1......

 NW> JDEBP.

Echo area requested....  Thanks for the info.

 NW>>> As the Z1 gateway for Z2R25, I am in a position to assure
 NW>>> you it *does* cross the water. :-)

 GM>> Oooooops.  Sorry, I didn't know about your position....  I guess
 GM>> that I should use GoldEd's NodeList LookUp more often than I do
 GM>> and be more aware of the addressing... <vBg>

 NW> There's no seperate listing in the nodelist for the gateway so there's
 NW> no way you could have know. ;-)

Oh, it's on a "need to know" basis?   <g>  Sometimes there is a glimmer of 
information in the nodelist......   B-}

 NW> [...snip...]

 GM>> I got a bit of a prob....  Have OS/2 ver 3.0 and I want to
 GM>> OVERWRITE all the ver 3.0 with OS/2 version 4.0 BUT I can't get
 GM>> it to work.

 NW> It can lead to unpredictable results at best. :-(

I deleted the three partitions that had the OS/2 proggies and left my DOS / 
4DOS partitions......  I can get the OS/2 Install up to the point where it is 
going to do a HPFS format of the "Installable" C: drive and then I get some 
error message about "being unable to format the drive"....

When I use the Boot Manager to boot to DOS/4DOS, I'm able to see the drive as 
if it were a FAT16 drive.......  ???

I'm getting ticked off enough to WIPE everything, delete all the partitions and 

start with a clean slate.

 GM>> Do I need to get into Boot Manager and delete all the Partitions?

 NW> No, you shouldn't need to. Just make sure you have backed up anything
 NW> you want to keep on the OS/2 system partitiion then boot from the
 NW> Installation floppy. IIRC, you have to choose the Advanced
 NW> Installation in order to get the option to select the installation
 NW> partition. Run that to make sure it's using the right one, then select
 NW> the option to format the partition when it asks you.

Since I only had version 3 up and running for about three months, it wasn't 
such a big deal to delete everything (part of the learning curve).  Bg!

 NW> That should give you a nice, clean install. :-)

I Should Be SO Lucky.   :-(

 NW> This OS/2 system uptime is 2 days 15:11 hours and 04 seconds
 NW>                            ^
 NW>                            did a bit more fiddling. ;-)
 NW> ... You have the capacity to learn from mistakes. You'll learn a lot
 NW> today.

Damned again.  Does that mean if I make a lot of little mistakes, I will learn 
lots and lots?  I always had a passion for wanting to fiddle....

           Cheers ... Gerald

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