Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 07:13:26 -0500 (EST) From: root Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" To: Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church cc: leathm AT solwarra DOT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au, opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Subject: Re: [opendos] Re: OpenDOS to be released next week! (fwd) In-Reply-To: <9701200653.AA20092@rgfn.epcc.Edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk On Sun, 19 Jan 1997, Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church wrote: > >> 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.) DOS is brain damaged and wont boot off of other partitions. OpenDOS however may do so. I suspect that it either can, or someone can make it once the sources are out. Regardless, I wouldn't use FDISK for this purpose. It is like shaving with a machete. Even LILO is safer IMHO. Mike A. Harris http://www3.sympatico.ca/mharris My dynamic address: http://www3.sympatico.ca/mharris/ip-address.html mailto:mharris AT sympatico DOT ca mailto:mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca The Art Bell homepage: http://www.artbell.com