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From: "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 01:31:16 +0100
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Subject: [opendos] First impressions, Win95+GRUB
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OK. I finally got the OS and installed it without any problems. However, 
there are a few things that I spotted right away and which need dealing with. 
It's possible they have been risen here, but I was absent for a while and 
didn't see any of what follows:

1. Emacs + TaskManager (working as multitasker).
   After entering Emacs TaskManager don't work, which is normal as Emacs 
   intercepts kbd. But, after quitting Emacs TaskManager *still* doesn't 
   respond to keypresses - there's no way it pop it up, only with C-A-D.

2. TaskManager makes DOS Command Center 4.0 go crazy - dunno where's the 
   blame (probably DCC).

3. There's no keyboard support for Latin2, Eastern European languages - what 
   do I have to do to add the support. I can prepare all the translation 
   tables and whatever's needed, but where to post it?

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I saw a topic on booting DOS with GRUB. Here's how I managed to make Win95 
live on the same partition OpenDOS does:

1. Install Win95 as usual (or just leave it be ;-))
2. Use some tool to grab the boot sector of the partition on which Win95 
   lives and save it under, say, win95.bin
3. Install OpenDOS *over* Win95 (don't worry, it'll work)
4. Grab the bootsector again (as, e.g. opendos.bin)
5. Put the two *.bin files in the *root* directory of the partition you're 
   booting from
6. Modify menu.lst like this:

  timeout = 4

  # For booting Windoze 95
  title=		Windoze 95 
  root=	(0x80,0)
  makeactive
  chainloader=    /win95.bin

  # For booting OpenDOS from a Windows 95/OpenDOS installation
  title=		Caldera OpenDOS 7.01 
  root=		(0x80,0)
  makeactive
  chainloader=	/opendos.bin
7. Boot from previously prepared floppy and use the install command as it was 
   described previously on this mailing list.

The only problem is sharing startup files between the two systems. If you 
don't use Win95 menus or any commands specific for it, you can share the 
files right away. If you do use the Windoze startup features, then it's 
worse. I decided to use an external multiconfig utility to share the files 
and simply set a variable in Win95 config.sys to differentiate between the 
OSes. If anyone has a better method, please let me know.

If the solution was already presented, I won't claim any copyrights ;-)))

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