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echo: os2_z3
to: Stephen Walsh
from: Hamish Moffatt
date: 1997-02-04 14:36:52
subject: Should I buy Merlin?

Hello Stephen!

Saturday February 01 1997 22:50, Stephen Walsh wrote to Ian Pickering:

 > When you install 95 it will say that it's found a os/2 bootmanager
 > partition and will ask if you want to disable this. Say yes, so that 95 can
 > install it's files and reboot (it'll do this about 3 or 5 times. record
 > here has been 7). You will then need to boot to dos or os/2 (use the os2
 > install floppy's and when you get the chnace hit f3 to go to the comamnd
 > prompt. The run os/2's fdisk (or you can run true dos's [ie: MSdos V5]
 > fdisk) and make the os/2 bm partition the active one.

You can use Win95's FDISK to make the BM partition active. It works fine, I did
it when installing Windows.


Regards,
Hamish

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