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to: Ronald Yii
from: Paul Markham
date: 1994-07-09 18:48:32
subject: master boot record

PM>> This will always assign the FAT parition as drive D. If you boot OS/2,

 PM>> you'll then have a drive E available as well. This is similar to the

 PM>> configuration I ended up with on my computer, except I've got multiple

 PM>> drives and the HPFS partition is the last partition on the last drive.



 RY> But how will I configure it if I want a partition for Linux,



It won't matter where you put the Linux partition since it'll be ignored anyway.



 RY> and I also failed to mention to you I've a CD-Rom. :-)



Presumably the CD-ROM drive letter moves about as well; drive F under OS/2
and drive E under MS-DOS. What you can do under MS-DOS is to specify the
drive letter you want the CD-ROM to be, so it's possible to have the same
drive letter under both OS/2 and MS-DOS.



In your AUTOEXEC.BAT you should have a line that loads MSCDEX.EXE. You can
add the /L parameter to specify the drive letter. The following is the line
out of my AUTOEXEC.BAT which specifies drive K as the CD-ROM:



LH C:\ADAPTEC\MSCDEX.EXE /D:ASPICD0 /L:K /M:12





Paul



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