Message-Id: <199811182348.SAA22666@kanga.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 18:48:03 -0500 (EST)
From: jls11 AT po DOT cwru DOT edu (John L. Spetz)
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Where is everybody?
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

Reply to message from ya830 AT victoria DOT tc DOT ca of Sun, 15 Nov
>
>   Another major consideration for me, as I intend to stick with the
>DR-DOS (operating system) and New Deal Office (GUI) combination for the
>forseeable future and I want to bet on a version of DOS that'll grow with
>me.
>

Well I notice that OpenLinux 1.3 bundles DR-DOS 7.02 for use with DOSEMU
so it would seem DR-DOS has not been completely relegated to the embedded
app/OEM market.  Actually anyone know if DR-DOS & DOSEMU can be used with
a Fat32 filesystem?

I used FIPS 2.0 (not the one bundled with OpenLinux 1.3, BTW) to repartition
my drive for Linux.  I saved 1 Gigabyte for a Fat16 filesystem which is now
D: to Windoze 98.  Can DR-DOS and/or DOSEMU be convinced to use/boot off
this partition?  One thought would be to have LILO offer to boot off it.
Actually the LILO that comes with OpenLinux 1.3 is unwilling to boot off
partition 1 (Win 98) at all so currently LILO lives on a floppy and C:
is still the boot partition.  This may be because the hard drive in question
is large, a 13+ Gb Maxtor drive.  Equally likely is that I do not know how
to specify to LILO to boot other OSs or the included version of LILO is not
real current.  Anyone have advice on multibooting DR-DOS & Linux with Win 98?