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Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 22:31:15 -0800
To: leathm AT solwarra DOT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au (Leath Muller)
From: Gene Buckle <geneb AT deltasoft DOT com>
Subject: [opendos] Re: OpenDOS to be released next week! (fwd)
Cc: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
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>
>Question: what is considered a normal boot manager? 95's? NT's? Lilo?
>Is installing OpenDOS going to kill my other bootable stuff?
>
>At the moment, the only way to have everything on my system is to install
>in the following order:
>
>DOS 6.22	- Used for compatibility if required
>Win 95	- Used for DirectX 3 programming
>Win NT	- Used for all other Win Programming
>Linux		- Using UMSDOS for compatibility. As this does'nt have a boot
>			  loader in this form, I don't think this really counts... :)
>
>Can I just install the OpenDOS from here, without losing _full_ functionality
>to all the other software???

There should be no problem, but don't take my word for it.  When it comes
out, TEST it on something you don't mind losing.  If you want to use 95 and
OpenDOS, install OpenDOS first, then Win95.   Win95 will allow you to "boot
to a previous version of DOS".  Also, OpenDOS doesn't currently support the
FAT32 standard that Win95OSR2 (Win96?) uses.

g.