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From: "Glenn McCorkle" <glennmcc AT cisnet DOT com>
Organization: Arachne Fan Club
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:58:32 -0500
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To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DR-DOS on 2nd HD
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On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 14:29:16 -0700, Dan de Haan wrote:

> It is at all possable to make DR-DOS 7.03 (or any other) boot from a
> second hard drive?

> I as many people just bought a new hard drive, this one (8.4G) is a
> fat32 drive and therefore you cannot boot DRDOS off of it.  and Win98
> will not boot off a second drive.

 Yes, multi-boot systems of several different kinds are available.
Or, you can set it up like I have.

The 1.6gig drive is for Linux only.
The 5.7gig drive has both W95 and OpenDos v7.01 on it.

 I used Linux Fdisk to create 2 primary partitions on the 5.7gig drive.

The first "physical partition" is OpenDos FAT16.
The second is extended partition with 3 logical drives.
The third is W95 FAT32.

LILO is in that first partition's MBR for choosing between DOS or Linux.
To choose W95, I just run OpenDos' Fdisk and switch the active partition
to #3 instead of #1
To switch back to DOS, I just run W95's Fdisk and make partition #1
active again.
 It's that easy. No special "boot manager" is needed.
The only "big draw-back" with this method is that Linux is required.
(neither DOS nor W95/98 Fdisk will create of 2 primary partitions).

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Glenn McCorkle mailto:glennmcc AT cisnet DOT com
North Jackson, Ohio, USA
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