Some senseless babbling from George White to Mike Ruskai
on 11-08-99  07:46 about Win9XX Question...

 GW> On 06-Nov-99, MIKE RUSKAI wrote to LINDA PROULX:
[snip]
 MR> NT does).  So, to install Win95 (or WinNT), you'll need to give up
 MR> DOS, since it'll overwrite it when installing.

 GW> No, thats definitely not the case.
 
 MR> The only way to avoid that is to use a third-party program like
 MR> System Commander, which does a juggling act with the boot files of
 MR> the operating systems it supports.  It allows you to install any
 MR> number of OS's on the same partition, and choose which to boot at
 MR> startup.

 GW> You can do it easily with just boot manager, I have here. It just
 GW> takes some advance planning in the partitioning of the drive.
 GW> One method,
 GW> a) Install Boot Manager (Primary)
 GW> b) Primary Partition for DOS
 GW> c) Primary Partition for NT/Win 9x
 GW> Extended Partition
 GW> d) Logical partition for OS/2
 GW> e) Other logical drives as required (apps, data, etc)

I don't recommend such hoop-jumping tricks for people asking so many
questions about partitioning.  Having more than one primary data partition
on a drive is begging for confusion.  In the above, one of them wouldn't be
accessible at all under OS/2, without changing which was hidden and
rebooting.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


... As I feared, you have no sense of humor.

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