Mail Archives: opendos/1998/11/28/01:20:33
apoligize for the verbosity.
IMHO you should leave your setup as is and then you can use the DOS
partition for DOS programs which just won't work with WIN95. Apparently
your setup does manually what System Commander does automatically. I
don't know how they do it but they may have it set up for each operating
system to be on a different partition (they can set up for seven or eight
different os's which can be run on boot up from a menu) and changeing the
active partion on the fly during bootup.
IF you were just to unhide the DRDOS partition WIN 95 would problably
(at the very least ) crash your system and since WIN95 goes out looking
for outdated or non WIN95 files you could end up with a very severely
trashed system.
when you install win 95 it sets up the IFS for long file names and some
limited backward compatability with FAT but they use VFAT and then
install new versions of WIN95 versions of some OLD DOS files. it renames
or deletes the old ones and then copies its own files to disk. these
files include at least : msdos.sys, io.sys, command.com, himem.sys,
ifshlp.sys, setver.exe, dblspace or drvspace.bin, autoexec.bat,
config.sysmode.com, and it does not load emm386.exe unless you set it up
in in config.sys.
even if you were to have chosen to save WIN3.X and DRDOS for a dual boot
system during setup and had WIN95 installed in a directory other than
windows it would still change the above files and some DOS applications
would not run with it. you would also have to make sure your old windows
applications were compatible with WIN95 and get new versions and install
them if not. you would not be able to run any dos utilities such as
Norton Tools, Xtree, PCTools, unless they were written for WIN95. All
your old drivers would be changed to 32bit drivers unless there are none
available in your version of WIN95.
If you really want to find out as much as possible about WIN95 you should
look for a good book on WIN95 such as WINDOWS 95 UNLEASHED by Ed Tiley,
et al. published by SAMS Publishing.
On Fri, 27 Nov 1998 14:22:32 -0500 (EST) Nissim Chudnoff
<nchudnof AT mbhs DOT edu> writes:
>On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Mark F. Warchol wrote:
>
>> How did you go about setting this up? Was Drdos already on the H-D
>and then
>
>Ok, I figured it out (kind of).. I used an old version of Partition
>Magic,
>and made two primary partitions. Then I used BSL (a cardware
>bootloader)
>and had it hide the second partition when starting DOS, and hide the
>first
>when starting windows (originally I had DOS 6, and that was in one
>partition on an old drive.. I was going to put DR on my new one, along
>with 95).
>
>But now that I've got win95 installed, is it safe to unhide the other
>primary partition? I read that DOS-based OSes treat the first primary
>partition as C:, which means 95 would not work if I unhid the first
>primary partition.. is that right?
>
>Nissim Chudnoff
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>Email: nchudnof AT mbhs DOT edu
>WWW: http://mmm.mbhs.edu/~nchudnof/
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>
>
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