Date:	Fri, 12 Dec 1997 18:31:32 +1300
From:	physmsa AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz (Mr M S Aitchison)
Subject:	Re: Loader Madness (maybe not related)
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Message-id:	<199712120531.SAA13797@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>

> one thing that got my head spinning would be to have linux service under
> OpenDOS,you see,with the help of the task manager and DPMS (or DPMI)
> service,i would reserve 8 meg ram for OD and another 8 meg for linux
> ... I just want to have a back door to linux if i need to (and with
> DOS running,i could revert to DOS each time i need to)

I'm pretty sure you can't do that.  You can kill DOS and run Linux, You
might be able to put DOS in suspended animation, saving its RAM etc to
DISK, and restore it when Linux finishes.  Best to run DOS within Linux.

I've had a lot of success multibooting OS/2, OpenDOS, Novell DOS,
MSDOS, Win95 and Win NT, and am tempted to also run more versions of
DOS with Linux and OS/2.  There are an amazing number of "gotchas"
though, so some kind person should start a web page or FAQ.

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