Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 1997 23:12:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Evan Dickinson <evand AT wsunix DOT wsu DOT edu>
Reply-To:	evand AT scn DOT org
cc:	OpenDOS AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Question regarding Opendos and Win#95
In-Reply-To:	<199704160315.WAA06794@endeavor.flash.net>
Message-ID:	<Pine.OSF.3.95.970415222638.22671A-100000@unicorn.it.wsu.edu>
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On Tue, 15 Apr 1997 mwarchol AT flash DOT net wrote

>   What if you used two hardrives with W#95 on D for example and Opendos on
> C?  With my current machine I could do this instead of two portions
> of one drive.  The current configuration boots to Opendos from C and I could
> place W#95 on D?  Any additional thoughts are welcomed.
>                                                      Mark
[snip]

Funny thing happened just now.  I had a few extra minutes, and I decided
to try booting 95 from D.  And *it worked*.  So first, thanks for getting
me to try.  Now the caveats:

On my computer, C and D are both partitions of the same disk.  I don't
know if this'll work with two different disks.

Win95 still uses config.sys, autoexec.bat and probably msdos.sys from c:.
There is a work-around.  Copy your OpenDOS config.sys to something like
odcfg.sys.  Rename autoexec.bat, too.  In the first line of config.sys,
put in the command:

CHAIN=C:\ODCFG.SYS

This will stop processing of config.sys and start processing odcfg.sys
under OpenDOS.  Win95 will print an error and stay in config.sys.
Somewhere in odcfg.sys, enter the line

SET CONFIG=OPENDOS

Then, at the start of autoexec.bat, put:

IF "%CONFIG%"=="OPENDOS" ODAUTO.BAT

Which will run odauto.bat when you've booted to opendos.

Finally, I've had my computer running like this for all of 10 minutes now.
While everything's booting normally, and seems to work, I'm not
guaranteeing anything.  If I find anything horrible, I'll post it to the
list.  Until then, good luck.

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