From: "jj" <jj AT pcombo DOT co DOT nz>
To: <evand AT scn DOT org>, <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Opendos,win95 and NT in one HDD
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 23:16:10 +1200
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-----Original Message-----
From: Evan Dickinson <evand AT wsunix DOT wsu DOT edu>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Date: Wednesday, November 05, 1997 8:17 AM
Subject: Re: Opendos,win95 and NT in one HDD


>On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, worldmarkets wrote:
>
>[snip]
>> 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.
>
>Win95 will boot from d: (at least if c: and d: are partitions on one HD.
>I don't know if it works if they're 2 different physical disks).
>I've got Matthias Paul's updated ibmbio.com to boot from d:, but I
>haven't tried it with standard OpenDOS.  However, both OSes will try to
>load c:\config.sys and c:\autoexec.bat.  The solution is to put your
>Windows configuration into config.sys and autoexec.bat .  Then, put your
>opendos config.sys into dconfig.sys.  OpenDOS will load dconfig.sys and
>ignore config.sys.  Finally, find the shell= line in dconfig.sys, and add
>/p:odauto.bat .  This will cause OpenDOS to run odauto.bat instead of
>autoexec.bat.  Finally, put your OpenDOS' autoexec.bat into odauto.bat and
>use your favorite boot manager.
>
>You can get the alpha version if ibmbio.com from:
>http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/opendeng.html
>
>Evan
>