Mail Archives: opendos/2000/03/10/22:16:30
Not many users realize that even DOS can do this all by itself.
No special boot loader is needed for 3 out of the 5 OS's on this machine.
(just Fdisk, nothing more)
This 5.7gig drive has 3 primary DOS partitions.
The first has OpenDos v7.01
The second has W95
On the third is W98
PTS-DOS 2000 is installed on the 7th logical drive in the first primary
partition's extended partition.
Yes you heard correctly, PTS-DOS 2000 _can_ boot a logical drive.
To switch between OpenDos, W95 and W98....
Run Fdisk and choose partition 1, 3 or 4 as the "active" one.
(#2 is the extended partition)
To boot PTS-DOS 2000... rewrite the Master boot record of the first
"physical" primary DOS partition with the PTS-DOS loader.
To Boot Linux... rewrite the MBR with "LILO" (LInux LOader)
(LILO boots the second drive where Linux is installed)
Now, so that this isn't completely off-topic for the OpenDos list...
All of the partitions on both drives were created with,
You guessed it.... OpenDos's "sister", OpenLinux.<g>
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:06:00 -0600 (CST), Dave Dribin wrote:
<snip>
> Other OSes that have more flexibility (like Linux) do not have to be
> on the first primary partition, and may even be on the second disk.
> Again, SC takes care of all this.
<snip>
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Glenn McCorkle glennmcc AT cisnet DOT com North Jackson, Ohio, USA
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