Message-ID:	<345F0042.8155FF25@wmrc.com>
Date:	Tue, 04 Nov 1997 11:00:21 +0000
From:	worldmarkets <worldmarkets AT wmrc DOT com>
Reply-To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
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To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Opendos,win95 and NT in one HDD
References:	<199711022034 DOT JAA26334 AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz> <346010E5 DOT 76B0 AT pcombo DOT co DOT nz>

About partitions ...

My machine triple-boots OpenDOS (FAT), NT (NTFS), and Linux (ext2).  I use
LILO as the boot manager.  The only thing to be careful of is that all three
booting partitions must start below the 1Gb boundary (I used to think it was
2Gb, but that didn't work.  Out came Partition Magic to fix that little
cock-up ;-)

If you want to triple-boot OpenDOS/Win95/NT you'll have problems with Win95
and OpenDOS, as they both assume that the first FAT partition on the disk is
drive C:, and insist on being booted from C: - so can't live in seperate
partitions without heavy application of black magic.  A work-around is to have
1 FAT partition, with OpenDOS on it, then 'upgrade' to Win95, but with the
option of dual-booting.  Then create your NTFS partition and install NT. 
You'll have to DUAL-boot between NT and Win95, and then use Win95's 'boot old
version of MS-DOS' option to get at OpenDOS.

If you use Win95B on a FAT32 partition and OpenDOS on a FAT16 partition, this
problem may go away.  I dunno what will happen if NT is also set to boot off a
FAT drive.  NT-on-FAT sounds evil to me ;-)

I found that I had to have all three bootable partitions set as PRIMARY (not
EXTENDED/LOGICAL).  The DOS/Win95 FDISK program doesn't let you do that.  The
Linux one does.

--
David Cantrell, part-time NT/SQL/java techie
                full-time chef/musician/homebrewer

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