Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 18:11:34 -0600 (MDT)
From: Roger Ivie <IVIE AT cc DOT usu DOT edu>
Subject: [opendos] Re: Win NT, MS DOS 6.22, Win 95, and OpenDOS
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> Before I go and get OpenDOS, I was wondering if I would be able to
> install OpenDOS on the *SAME* drive as MS DOS 6.22 and not have it
> interfer with DOS 6.22, in other words, I am a multi OS person, I use
> them all... I have the disk space, so I do it.. I like it this way...

I've done this sort of thing using a boot sector I found somewhere called
BOOTANY. BOOTANY gives you a menu prompting you for a partition to boot.
When you select one, it marks that partition as the primary and boots it.
It should be possible to have both a MS-DOS and an OpenDOS partition and
boot them using that sort of trick.

One caveat, though. I was using it to select between NT and NetBSD. Whenever
I installed NT, it took _forever_ to clean up all the gunk it had done to the
boot sector and get my boot menu back instead of NT's (I could get NT's
boot menu by selecting NT from the BOOTANY menu, but NT is basically not
nice to other operating systems). Unfortunately, it's been so long since I
did it that I don't recall exactly what I had to do to the boot sector after
NT had been there to make it all work again...

Roger Ivie
ivie AT cc DOT usu DOT edu