Date:	Tue, 4 Nov 1997 10:54:31 -0800 (PST)
From:	Evan Dickinson <evand AT wsunix DOT wsu DOT edu>
Reply-To:	evand AT scn DOT org
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Opendos,win95 and NT in one HDD
In-Reply-To:	<345F0042.8155FF25@wmrc.com>
Message-ID:	<Pine.OSF.3.95.971104103759.25170A-100000@unicorn.it.wsu.edu>
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On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, worldmarkets wrote:

[snip]
> 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.

Win95 will boot from d: (at least if c: and d: are partitions on one HD.
I don't know if it works if they're 2 different physical disks).
I've got Matthias Paul's updated ibmbio.com to boot from d:, but I 
haven't tried it with standard OpenDOS.  However, both OSes will try to
load c:\config.sys and c:\autoexec.bat.  The solution is to put your
Windows configuration into config.sys and autoexec.bat .  Then, put your
opendos config.sys into dconfig.sys.  OpenDOS will load dconfig.sys and
ignore config.sys.  Finally, find the shell= line in dconfig.sys, and add
/p:odauto.bat .  This will cause OpenDOS to run odauto.bat instead of
autoexec.bat.  Finally, put your OpenDOS' autoexec.bat into odauto.bat and
use your favorite boot manager.

You can get the alpha version if ibmbio.com from:
http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/opendeng.html

Evan

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