Some senseless babbling from Eddy Thilleman to Mike Ruskai
on 11-11-99  10:52 about Win9XX Question...

 ET> Hello Mike,

 ET> 09 Nov 99 17:32, MIKE RUSKAI wrote to LINDA PROULX:
 
 MR> So, to install Win95 (or WinNT), you'll need to give up DOS, since
 MR> it'll overwrite it when installing.

 ET> Have you never heard of different boot partitions??

That'd require a different primary partition on the boot drive, which means
shifting drive C:'s, something I never recommend.

 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.

 ET> So System Commander does something like OS/2 Warp 4 does with dual
 ET> boot when a DOS version and OS/2 Warp 4 are both installed on the same
 ET> primary C: FAT-partition? Can't System Commander use different boot
 ET> partitions (or you didn't mention that)?

Yes, and yes.  However, I'm trying not to complicate the issue by
introducing a bad partitioning scheme.

 ET> IMHO, OS/2 should be installed only on a HPFS partition. Leave FAT
 ET> partitions to real plain DOS.

I won't argue with that.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


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