In a message of 08-15-1997, BOB WRIGHT wrote re: Setting up dual
boot
KS>> Besides, why the hell do people prefere dual- boot in
KS>> favour of the bootmanager? Beats me.
 
JT> I'm with you there.  I've never understood it myself.  But
JT> everyone has their own poison, I suppose.
 
BW> Well, lemme see here... from personal experience:
BW> 
BW> a) because it's easy to install.
Well, you should only have to do that once.
 
BW> b) if you've only got ONE hard drive, DOS is already
BW> installed, along with a  whole bunch of stuff that you'd rather
BW> not lose.  (Remember, boot manager  installation requires
BW> partitioning).
There are several commerical (Partition Magic) and freeware
(PRESIZER and FIPS) non-destructive partition resizing utilities
available.  When I installed OS/2 v2.1 I used PRESIZER to shrink
my existing DOS partition to create space for an HPFS OS/2
partition.
BW> c) if (B) and you don't have a tape drive for use in creating
BW> a full drive  backup.
Although I did have a tape drive and current backups, PRESIZER
made the change with no data loss.
   
BW> d) you still have to boot native DOS because your terminal 
BW> emulator (supplied  by your MS-centric employer) won't work in
BW> WINOS/2 (or you don't have time    to figure out how to get the
BW> *()&)(*& to work).
Once you get Boot Manager set up it's no harder to go back and
forth between DOS and OS/2 than Dual Boot, and a lot less risky,
IMHO, since it doesn't rely on copying system files each time you
change OS's.
Which terminal emulator are you referring to?  I have yet to find
a terminal program that doesn't function under OS/2's DOS or
Win-OS/2.
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