Mail Archives: opendos/1997/01/27/12:02:46
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>From: Roger Ivie[SMTP:IVIE AT cc DOT usu DOT edu]
>Sent: Friday, January 24, 1997 7:11 PM
>To: OPENDOS AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
>Subject: [opendos] Re: Win NT, MS DOS 6.22, Win 95, and OpenDOS
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>>> Before I go and get OpenDOS, I was wondering if I would be able to
>>> install OpenDOS on the *SAME* drive as MS DOS 6.22 and not have it
>>> interfer with DOS 6.22, in other words, I am a multi OS person, I use
>>> them all... I have the disk space, so I do it.. I like it this way...
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>>I've done this sort of thing using a boot sector I found somewhere called
>>BOOTANY. BOOTANY gives you a menu prompting you for a partition to boot.
>>When you select one, it marks that partition as the primary and boots it.
>>It should be possible to have both a MS-DOS and an OpenDOS partition and
>>boot them using that sort of trick.
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>>One caveat, though. I was using it to select between NT and NetBSD. Whenever
>>I installed NT, it took _forever_ to clean up all the gunk it had done to
>>the
>>boot sector and get my boot menu back instead of NT's (I could get NT's
>>boot menu by selecting NT from the BOOTANY menu, but NT is basically not
>>nice to other operating systems). Unfortunately, it's been so long since I
>>did it that I don't recall exactly what I had to do to the boot sector after
>>NT had been there to make it all work again...
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> Ok, try this one.. Using System Commander (A Multi-OS Boot Sector
>Selector), I plan on using the following OS's (I do Tech Support so I need em
>all)
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> Partition 1 (FAT - 540 megs)
> OpenDOS v7.01 (w/ it's own copy of Win3.1)
> MS-Dos v6.22 (w/ it's own copy of Win3.1)
> Windows 95
> Partition 2 (HPFS or FAT, not sure yet - 540 megs)
> Windows NT 3.51 Workstation
> Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
> OS/2 Warp 3.0
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> Thankfully I can have PLENTY of networks drives to install apps to.. =)
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>Jonathan Tarbox
>Tech Support
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