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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!pendragon.jsc.nasa.gov!usenet From: wkulecz@life.jsc.nasa.gov (Walter B Kulecz PhD) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Multibooting query Date: 18 Sep 1995 02:12:52 GMT Organization: My opinions, not NASA's or KRUG's Lines: 26 Message-ID: <43ikj4$koe@pendragon.jsc.nasa.gov> References: <43ih2j$2l6@mark.ucdavis.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gomer.jsc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 In article <43ih2j$2l6@mark.ucdavis.edu>, fzshenau@dale.ucdavis.edu says... > >I know that many BSD/OS users multi-boot their machines between BSDOS >and one or more DOS-compatible OSs: I find that I must consider doing >this as well. I would appreciate war stories and general commentaries >about doing this, in particular, what multi-boot utility to use, and >which DOS OSs or NOSs work best in a multi-booting environment. (For >example, does the network presence of a multi-booted host change when >it's running DOS versus when it's running BSDOS? How does it change? >Does the advent of MSW95 change the multi-boot picture?) I've been very happy using the OS/2 2.0 Boot Manager to share BSD/OS and DOS/WfW on a single boot disk. I occasionally boot OS/2 from drive D: and the third partition (Boot Manager uses one of the four entries) has Win95 which I'm playing with. I've been doing this since the first beta (never tried it with alpha :-) The multiboot option built into BSD/OS disksetup should work fine for simply sharing a disk between DOS/Windows and BSD/OS. If you configure your Winsock TCP/IP correctly the network identity (DNS etc) stays the same as only one system is ever running at any given time. Recieving smtp mail will cause headaches. --wally