From: "Alain Toussaint" <alaint AT boisfrancs DOT qc DOT ca>
To: <dallasii AT kincyb DOT com>, <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Loader Madness (maybe not related)
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 20:39:25 -0500
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i have a question and my question is basicaly relating to this
you see,OS/2 provide DOS (and windows too) service to the users (and program
too)

>One intresting experiment, still underway, is booting Specific DOS
>versions under OS/2 (VMB - Virtual Machine Boot) from Drive C:, when

my question is related to something like that (the Virtual Machine Boot)

>booting OS/2 with DOS still installed on the partition boot sector.
>This brings up the LOADER menu, and you can select which DOS version
>to run then, instead of needing to have a seperate disk image
>for each version of DOS you want to run as an application under OS/2 Warp.
>The same should be possible under DOSEmu in LINUX.
>This hasn't been fully explored yet, but the possiblities are
>making my head spin. :-)


one thing that got my head spinning would be to have linux service under
OpenDOS,you see,with the help of the task manager and DPMS (or DPMI)
service,i would reserve 8 meg ram for OD and another 8 meg for linux (i have
only 16 meg on this machine),i know it's possible to have exactly the
contrary of my statement (i.e.DOS services under linux) but i want ot
investigate my way of doing it (it's because i dont have much knowledge of
linux and i want to learn it,one time,i tried to install it on my uncle's
pentium and we both have run into a brick wall because we were not very
prepared and we where not knowing anything about using it),i just want to
have a back door to linux if i need to (and with DOS running,i could revert
to DOS each time i need to)

my hard disk is already partitionned as C: D: and E: drives (1.7 gig
drive),my system is a 486/DX2,50 mhz with 16 meg ram (i will install more
memory sometime in 98 if i need to do so) and a CD (and a CD-rom of linux
too,i did not download it via the internet,one thing i need to know if will
netscape communicator for linux would run inside 8 meg ram,even if it's slow
??)

>I speak only for myself, and assume full responsibility for my statements.


me too,and sometime i got hosed !!

thanks a lot for reading this message and if you have special comment about
that (anything that dont fit this list) mail me at:
alaint AT boisfrancs DOT qc DOT ca

Alain