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Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 17:15:08 -0600
From: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
Organization: Spectrum Healthcare Services
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To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Opendos,win95 and NT in one HDD
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Mike A. Harris wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Weiqi Gao wrote:
> 
> > > 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).
> >
> > Windows 95 does not boot from the second hard drive(?).
> 
> For what it's worth, I have MSDOS 6.22, Windows '95,
> Slackware 3.1, RedHat 4.2, and NT4 all installed on my system
> across 3 physical disks.  There are countless partitions.
> 
> DOS/Slackware are on the first 2 physical disks.  (1.4G total)
> 
> Windows '95 is on the first partition of the THIRD HARD DISK.
> NT is on the second partition of the THIRD HARD DISK
> and RedHat is on the third disk as well.

Then I remembered wrong.  It must be MS DOS and OpenDOS that cannot be
booted from other than the first drive.

> I boot all OS's just fine.  NT only see's my NTFS partition, DOS
> only see's my FAT-16 partitions, Windows '95 only see's FAT-32
> partitions, Linux see's them all.
> 
> All of this works without a hitch.  The only problem is that only
> Linux see's all, so if I want to access files from one OS in
> another I'm SOL.
> 
> I could ALLOW '95/NT to see my FAT16 drives too, but then my
> drive letters would be all screwed and I'd have to reinstall
> tonnes of apps.  No thanks.

You can see your Linux partition from Windows 95 now.  Search the net
for "fsdext2" to find the driver.

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Weiqi Gao
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