Suntan Special version 0.60
Suntan Special for Broadband edition
OS/2 or eComStation on a computer can installed on a single disk partition on the only hard disk. Many people use a more complex configuration, frequently with multiple operating systems which can be selected at boot time by a boot manager.
Even for a computer which will only run one version of OS/2 or eComStation, Blonde Guy recommends a boot manager, a principal operating system partition, a maintenance partition, and a user data partition.
Blonde Guy usually puts the operating system and applications on one disk partition and user data on a different partition, or even on a different computer. The operating system and applications can be reinstalled fairly easily, but user data is often irreplacable.
The size of the operating system partition depends on what will be installed on that partition. For workstations, Blonde Guy is using a 4 GB partition, and for servers, a 5 GB partition for the operating system and applications. Try to be generous when allocating disk space for the operating system and applications -- it is sometimes difficult to make more room later.
For Warp 4, the operating system partition must be within the first 1024 blocks of the physical disk drive. For this reason, it may make sense to put Warp 4 on a separate small partition near the start of the disk, and to put applications and data on partitions at the end of the disk. This restriction is removed for the LVM versions of OS/2, that is OS/2 Warp Server for e-business, the Convenience Pack releases and eComStation.