Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 13:15:40 -0800
From: "Alan S." <as173 AT cornell DOT edu>
Subject: Re: setup-drdos-partition
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[1]  Sometime after 7.03 was released, Caldera 'promised' to add "boot
from any Primary" to the wish-list.  I haven't bothered trying the
7.04/7.05 boot files to see if the issue has been solved.  Anyone?

[2]  (Trivia) With the right fixes to the 7.02 or 7.03 files you could
install and boot from PRIMARY#1 on Drive#2 (and maybe higher...)  Note
that this appears to have been a deliberate 'feature'.

Alan S.
3-29-2001
 

Alain wrote:
> 
> >whats the easiest method to load drdos to a partition after win98 is
> >installed.
> 
> I have done it once this way:
>     1- using pqmagic I moved the partition upwards so that the begining
>         of the drive is free
>     2- using pqmagic (or something), I made a Fat16b primary partition
>         at the begining of the drive
>     3- still with the windows partition active, I formated and SYS'ed the
>         second partiton that apears as D:
>     4- I can now use any Fdisk to change the active partition and boot from it.
> 
> There is a BUG in DR-DOS in the partion managing: the DR-DOS boot
> partition has to be the first
> 
> Alain