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From: Jonathan Tarbox - SSG <JonatTar AT sbservices DOT com>
To: "'opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net'" <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: FW: [opendos] Re: Win NT, MS DOS 6.22, Win 95, and OpenDOS
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 11:45:10 -0500
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>From: 	Roger Ivie[SMTP:IVIE AT cc DOT usu DOT edu]
>Sent: 	Friday, January 24, 1997 7:11 PM
>To: 	OPENDOS AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
>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...
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>	Ok, try this one.. Using System Commander (A Multi-OS Boot Sector 
>Selector), I plan on using the following OS's (I do Tech Support so I need em
>all)
>
>	Partition 1 (FAT - 540 megs)
>		OpenDOS v7.01  (w/ it's own copy of Win3.1)
>		MS-Dos v6.22  (w/ it's own copy of Win3.1)
>		Windows 95
>	Partition 2 (HPFS or FAT, not sure yet - 540 megs)
>		Windows NT 3.51 Workstation
>		Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
>		OS/2 Warp 3.0
>
>	Thankfully I can have PLENTY of networks drives to install apps to.. =)
>
>Jonathan Tarbox
>Tech Support
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