Date:	Mon, 20 Jan 1997 07:13:26 -0500 (EST)
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Reply-To:	"Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT sympatico DOT ca>
To:	Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church <av568 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT Edu>
cc:	leathm AT solwarra DOT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au, opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject:	Re: [opendos] Re: OpenDOS to be released next week! (fwd)
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On Sun, 19 Jan 1997, Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church wrote:

> >> There should be no problem, but don't take my word for it.  When it comes
> >> out, TEST it on something you don't mind losing.  If you want to use 95 and
> >> OpenDOS, install OpenDOS first, then Win95.   Win95 will allow you to "boot
> >> to a previous version of DOS".  Also, OpenDOS doesn't currently support the
> >> FAT32 standard that Win95OSR2 (Win96?) uses.
> >Well, that's why I was asking...it's basically not feasible for me to
> >reinstall everything simply for the functionality of a cool multi-tasking
> >DOS... :(  I hate that...
> 
> Well, what I was planning to do (and someone please tell me if this is 
> idiotic) was making a tiny partition on my main hard drive and making it 
> boot OpenDOS, switching between M$-DOS and OpenDOS by changing my Active 
> Partition in fdisk. (I've tested this before with other operating 
> systems, and it has worked, so I assume this would work as well.)

DOS is brain damaged and wont boot off of other partitions.  OpenDOS
however may do so.  I suspect that it either can, or someone can make it
once the sources are out.

Regardless, I wouldn't use FDISK for this purpose.  It is like shaving
with a machete.  Even LILO is safer IMHO.


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