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From: "Weiqi Gao" <weiqigao AT crl DOT com>
To: "Dean Mills" <dmills AT img DOT net>, <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: Re: [opendos] Any OpenDOS Snafu's B4 Install?
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 19:26:52 -0600
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Mills, Dean <dmills AT img DOT net> wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>As per the subject, is there anything that I should be aware of before
>attempting to install the full-networking version of OpenDOS on my system?
>Here's what I have, in case it matters.
>
>P-166 w/ 64Mb RAM
>2 x HD's (1.2Gb, 2.2Gb)
>6 partitions (1 x FAT (C:), 5 x HPFS (D,E,F,G))
>MSDOS/Win3.11 on C:
>OS/2 v4 on D:
>
>Is there a fear of OpenDOS's installation `tickling' the partitions when
>installing, ala Win95/NT, so that BootManager will be inoperable? I'd
really
>like to not have to find out if my tape backup rescue disks work or not!
>Thanks for any and all help.

I just discovered today (after installing OpenDOS on the first hard drive,
uninstalling it, installing OpenDOS on the second partition, installing
grub on the first hard drive, then the second hard drive, then FDISK
/MBRing, SYSing the hard drives from MS-DOS, OpenDOS, MS-DOS again, etc.)
that to grub, my first hard drive has a single partition---partition 3, not
partition 1.  Nothing really bad had happened yet.

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Weiqi Gao
weiqigao AT crl DOT com