Mail Archives: opendos/1998/11/18/18:48:31
Reply to message from ya830 AT victoria DOT tc DOT ca of Sun, 15 Nov
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> Another major consideration for me, as I intend to stick with the
>DR-DOS (operating system) and New Deal Office (GUI) combination for the
>forseeable future and I want to bet on a version of DOS that'll grow with
>me.
>
Well I notice that OpenLinux 1.3 bundles DR-DOS 7.02 for use with DOSEMU
so it would seem DR-DOS has not been completely relegated to the embedded
app/OEM market. Actually anyone know if DR-DOS & DOSEMU can be used with
a Fat32 filesystem?
I used FIPS 2.0 (not the one bundled with OpenLinux 1.3, BTW) to repartition
my drive for Linux. I saved 1 Gigabyte for a Fat16 filesystem which is now
D: to Windoze 98. Can DR-DOS and/or DOSEMU be convinced to use/boot off
this partition? One thought would be to have LILO offer to boot off it.
Actually the LILO that comes with OpenLinux 1.3 is unwilling to boot off
partition 1 (Win 98) at all so currently LILO lives on a floppy and C:
is still the boot partition. This may be because the hard drive in question
is large, a 13+ Gb Maxtor drive. Equally likely is that I do not know how
to specify to LILO to boot other OSs or the included version of LILO is not
real current. Anyone have advice on multibooting DR-DOS & Linux with Win 98?
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