Date: Sun, 19 Jan 97 23:53:15 MST
Message-Id: <9701200653.AA20092@rgfn.epcc.Edu>
From: av568 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT Edu (Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church)
To: leathm AT solwarra DOT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au
Subject: Re: [opendos] Re: OpenDOS to be released next week! (fwd)
Cc: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Reply-To: av568 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT Edu
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>> 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.
>
>Well, that's why I was asking...it's basically not feasible for me to
>reinstall everything simply for the functionality of a cool multi-tasking
>DOS... :(  I hate that...
>

Well, what I was planning to do (and someone please tell me if this is 
idiotic) was making a tiny partition on my main hard drive and making it 
boot OpenDOS, switching between M$-DOS and OpenDOS by changing my Active 
Partition in fdisk. (I've tested this before with other operating 
systems, and it has worked, so I assume this would work as well.)



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