Message-Id: Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 08:51:26 +0000 From: Matthias Paul To: opendos AT delorie DOT com, paul-ma AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de Subject: Re: Multiple OS support for OpenDOS & MS-DOS... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Precedence: bulk On 97/11/27 raster AT highfiber DOT com wrote: >Problems: (1) there doesn't seem to be any way of making MS- the default; >you either make Caldera DOS the default, or have no default and be forced >to choose at each boot. That s right, the standard boot sector cannot be made a default which will be timed out. However, the software compatible LOADER by CCI (from their Multiuser DOS demo for example), uses a more verbose configuration file format, and does allow to make the Standard boot sector the default. >(2) I haven't yet figured out any way to make >OpenDOS and IBM DOS coexist yet, since the boot files have identical >filenames. Well, that s what SYS /DR:ext is for... (Yes, you re right too, it s not documented in the offical OpenDOS docs, but please have a look at the docs available from my OpenDOS web-pages.) Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------ Matthias Paul eMail: Web: http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html