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Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 12:04:44 +0100
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Once upon a time (on  8 May 97 at 0:29) randir said:

> 
>  Well I've played with the memory managers & all and it looks
>  like there is a problem with the OD kernel itself & or
>  the share program...
Nah... it's not the kernel - see my other message.

>  Anyone have a good idea of how to set up both opendos & msdos? :)
Just use the GRUB booter. It allows you to start by reading bootrecord from a 
file on your HDD. That way the only thing you do is to

1. fdisk /mbr, sys c: under OD and grab the bootrecord to a file (with NU 
   DiskEdit for example)
2. Do the same with M$-DOG
3. Store OD & M$ COMMAND.COMs in different dirs (or just use 4DOS - 
   recommened ;-) 
4. Setup a boot menu for GRUB using the two previously created 
   bootsector files

This will work fine for M$-DOG and OpenDOS installed on the same partition.
To further separate the two systems, use dconfig.sys (I think I remember 
the name right ;-)) to configure OpenDOS and the usual config.sys for M$-DOG. 
In autoexec you may differentiate between the two using the OS and VER 
variables set by OD when booting (or just use SET OPENDOS=1 in dconfig.sys - 
beware that (d)config.sys SETed variables are case-sensitive under OD).

Hope that helps!
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Doctor said my liver looks like living with my lover -
needs another time-out now. Like any sort of hero turning
down to zero, standing out in any crowd. [snip]
Dr. Finlay: And my advice is if you maintain this lifestyle
you won't reach 30...
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