Message-ID: <345F0042.8155FF25@wmrc.com> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 11:00:21 +0000 From: worldmarkets Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Opendos,win95 and NT in one HDD References: <199711022034 DOT JAA26334 AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz> <346010E5 DOT 76B0 AT pcombo DOT co DOT nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk About partitions ... My machine triple-boots OpenDOS (FAT), NT (NTFS), and Linux (ext2). I use LILO as the boot manager. The only thing to be careful of is that all three booting partitions must start below the 1Gb boundary (I used to think it was 2Gb, but that didn't work. Out came Partition Magic to fix that little cock-up ;-) If you want to triple-boot OpenDOS/Win95/NT you'll have problems with Win95 and OpenDOS, as they both assume that the first FAT partition on the disk is drive C:, and insist on being booted from C: - so can't live in seperate partitions without heavy application of black magic. A work-around is to have 1 FAT partition, with OpenDOS on it, then 'upgrade' to Win95, but with the option of dual-booting. Then create your NTFS partition and install NT. You'll have to DUAL-boot between NT and Win95, and then use Win95's 'boot old version of MS-DOS' option to get at OpenDOS. If you use Win95B on a FAT32 partition and OpenDOS on a FAT16 partition, this problem may go away. I dunno what will happen if NT is also set to boot off a FAT drive. NT-on-FAT sounds evil to me ;-) I found that I had to have all three bootable partitions set as PRIMARY (not EXTENDED/LOGICAL). The DOS/Win95 FDISK program doesn't let you do that. The Linux one does. -- David Cantrell, part-time NT/SQL/java techie full-time chef/musician/homebrewer