## Contents

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- Overview

- What is included in Suntan Special?
- This edition of Suntan Special

- Installation

- Partitioning hard drives
- Boot Manager
- Choosing an Application Directory
- Source Directories
- Software Repository
- Product Keys
- Modified Boot Diskettes
- Installing the Operating System

- Warp 4
- Warp Server for e-Business
- Warp 4 Convenience Pack (MCP)
- Warp Server for e-Business Convenience Package (ACP)
- eComStation 1.0
- eComStation 1.1
- eComStation 1.2 media refresh
- eComStation 2.0
- eComStation 2.1
- eComStation 2.2
- ArcaOS 5.0

- Make a Backup
- Installing Suntan Special
- Running Suntan Special
- Platform Sequence
- Thinkpad Sequence
- Application Sequence
- Other Sequences
- Saving Settings
- Removing Suntan Special

- Using Suntan Special

- Downloading Updates
- Upgrade from previous editions
- After upgrading from previous editions

- Customizing Suntan Special

- Editing Sequences
- Adding Files to Extra Applications
- Creating Sequences
- Creating Applications
- Suntan Special API

- AddBook
- ApplicationEd
- cdglobal
- CDMessage
- CDMessageWait
- CDPopup
- checklist
- choice
- DevFolder
- DoWarpIN
- DoYum
- EditConfigSys
- EditFile
- editpath
- ejectCD
- evar
- ExecuteCommand
- FindBootDrive
- GamesFolder
- GetExtra
- InstallApp
- LogCdi
- MessageDialog
- ProgramFolder
- query
- QuerySettings
- radiolist
- saywords
- SeqDel
- SeqImport
- setCDletter
- setSetting
- startgui
- SuntanMkDir
- Timestamp
- TPCallback
- twopanel

- Suntan Special Display Monitor

- Application Page
- Sequence Page
- Log Page
- Help Page
- Settings Editor
- Sequence Editor

- Contents of this Edition

- Sequence List
- Application List

- Suntan Special Application Table
- Extra Applications
- Catalog Applications

- Settings List

- Support

- System Requirements
- Why I created Suntan Special
- Contacting Blonde Guy
- Notes for SCSI users
- Notes for USB users
- Command Line Operation
- Troubleshooting
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Application database
- Release Notes
- Release Notes

- License

Suntan Special version 0.68

Suntan Special Web edition

## Partitioning hard drives

OS/2 or ArcaOS or eComStation can installed on a single disk partition on the only hard disk on a computer. 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, ArcaOS or eComStation, Blonde Guy recommends a boot manager, a principal operating system partition, a maintenance partition, and a user data partition. A separate programs partition is optional. The operating system and applications can be reinstalled fairly easily, but user data is often irreplacable.

#### Disk Partition for operating system

The size of the operating system partition depends on what will be installed on that partition. If programs are to be included on the operating system partition, Blonde Guy recommends using a 5 to 10 GB partition. Try to be generous when allocating disk space for the operating system and applications -- it is sometimes difficult to make more room later. If the applications are to be installed to a different partition, a 1 GB operating system partition will be sufficient.

OS/2 uses a swap file to provide virtual memory. While most modern systems provide far more RAM than OS/2 needs, you can allocate up to 4 GB of swap space, which by default will be on the operating system partition. Most people can safely ignore this requirement if they are using modern hardware.

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.

Last Modified: 24 Dec 2019
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