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to: FRANK SEXTON
from: TONY LANGDON
date: 1997-08-21 11:23:00
subject: Setting up dual boot

It's 17 Aug 97  17:47:00,
We'll return to Frank Sexton and Thomas Ravn's
discussion of Setting up dual boot
 FS> Yes all FAT partitions EXCEPT PRIMARY C BOOT PARTITIONS as
 FS> defined in Boot Manager are visible to all OS's.  If you're
True.
 FS> running Win95 (or WinNT as I am) and OS/2 via boot manager,
 FS> I'd advise not letting Win95 (or NT) write all over your
 FS> OS/2 FAT with its long-filename kludge.  Boot Manager gives
 FS> you a way of keeping each respective C primary partition
 FS> invisible to the "other" OS by defining 'em both as primary
 FS> C drive boot partitions in Boot Manager.
I use a different approach.  My FAT partitions are used for DOS and
Windows apps only (C: and D:)
E: and F: are HPFS partitions.  All my OS/2 s/w is on E:  F: is general
storage for any OS I use.
G: is a NT4 NTFS partition, where I put my 32 bit Windows stuff.
... Format another planet? (Y/N)
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