In a message of 08-17-1997, TONY LANGDON wrote re: Setting up
dual boot
KS> Of course. And the Dos systemfiles are wiped outthen . Makes
KS> no sense to me.
 
TL> Agreed.  Obviously, they're backed up somewhere, just like
TL> what happens with a Win95 dual boot (which many people accept).  
Type "help boot" at a command line to see what happens to the
system files:
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  BOOT verifies that the following files exist: 
       OS/2 files 
            OS2LDR (hidden file) 
            OS2KRNL (hidden file) 
            OS2\SYSTEM\BOOT.OS2 
            OS2\SYSTEM\CONFIG.OS2 
       DOS files 
            IBMDOS.COM or MSDOS.SYS (hidden files) 
            IBMBIO.COM or IO.SYS (hidden files) 
            OS2\SYSTEM\BOOT.DOS 
            OS2\SYSTEM\CONFIG.DOS 
  
When you use the BOOT command to start DOS from the OS/2
operating system, BOOT renames and stores system startup
information as follows: 
    1. Saves the OS/2 boot record as C:\OS2\SYSTEM\BOOT.OS2 
    2. Moves the OS/2 AUTOEXEC.BAT file to
       C:\OS2\SYSTEM\AUTOEXEC.OS2. 
    3. Moves the OS/2 CONFIG.SYS file to
       C:\OS2\SYSTEM\CONFIG.OS2. 
    4. Copies C:\OS2\SYSTEM\BOOT.DOS to the DOS boot record. 
    5. Moves the DOS AUTOEXEC.BAT file from
       C:\OS2\SYSTEM\AUTOEXEC.DOS to  the root directory 
       as BOOT moves the OS/2 AUTOEXEC.BAT file. 
    6. Moves the DOS CONFIG.SYS file from
       C:\OS2\SYSTEM\CONFIG.DOS to the root directory as 
       BOOT moves the OS/2 CONFIG.SYS file.       
BOOT reverses the process when you want to start the OS/2
operating system.
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