Message-Id: <352DA004.930A56BB@full-moon.com> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 09:58:54 +0530 From: Rahul Puri Reply-To: rahulpuri AT full-moon DOT com Organization: Nirulas Corner House Ltd. Mime-Version: 1.0 To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Questions about co-existence DR-DOS & NT References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk Yes, of course. I have Windows NT + DR-DOS configuration on my system. They work absolutely fine and much better than Windows 95. Pavel Ozerski wrote: > I will upgrade my work computer to 32M RAM and change system configuration. > I think, the configuration Windows NT + DR-DOS must be better than Win95. > > Therefore I have some questions. > 1. Does NT 4.0 Workstation support FAT16? > Yes, NT 4.0 Workstation supports FAT 16. > 2. Can I have on the same HD partition DR DOS 7.02 and NT? > Is LOADER suitable as the boot manager for this configuration? > I have NT and DR-DOS on the same HD but on seperate partitions of 1GB each. But, I believe there is no reason why they will not work on the same partition. I haven't tried LOADER. I am quite satisfied with the NT boot manager which automatically puts an option of booting with DR-DOS on startup. You can put either NT or DR-DOS as the default boot. > 3. What OS must I install at first? > Preferably, DR-DOS. > 4. Does DR-DOS 7.02 COMMAND.COM run in NT DOS session? > DR-DOS's COMMAND.COM dosen't seem to work as NT- DOS session. However, NT's DOS subsystem CMD.EXE is good enough. > I hope, that my questions are interesting not only for me, because > Microsoft claims, that it will develop only NT after Windows 98. Rahul Puri. ******************************************** www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/3970/index.html. ********************************************