Hello Mike,

13 Nov 99 00:18, MIKE RUSKAI wrote to EDDY THILLEMAN:

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

If all the operating systems were placed on their own primary partition, all
on the first harddisk, the C: drive letter only shifts to the operating system 
which is booted, other partitions have their same drive letters if all
operating systems recognize and can use all logical partitions, but if all the 
logical partitions which are recognized by all operating systems are placed as 
first logical partitions (behind all the primary partitions) followed by the
logical partitions which are recognized and usable in some but not all
operating systems.

For example if one has only one harddisk (note: this is not my own setup, it's 
just an example):
  1st primary partition: Boot manager
  2nd primary partition: DOS (FAT)
  3rd primary partition: win98 (FAT or FAT32)
  4th primary partition: is in use as extended partition for
  1st logical partition: FAT partition (for data, for exchange of data between 
the operating systems)
  2nd logical partition: FAT32 partition (only usable in win98)
  3rd logical partition: HPFS OS/2 boot partition
  4th logical partition: HPFS partition (only usable in OS/2)

Ofcourse, multiple harddisks gives much more possibilities. But for beginners
that can be confusing.

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

MR> Yes, and yes.

So System Commander can also boot each operating system from its own boot
partition without reshuffling boot files around?

  Greetings   -=Eddy=-        email: eddy.thilleman@net.hcc.nl

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