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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!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!news.ucdavis.edu!dale!fzshenau From: fzshenau@dale.ucdavis.edu (Gregory Shenaut) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Multibooting query Date: 18 Sep 1995 01:12:51 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 24 Message-ID: <43ih2j$2l6@mark.ucdavis.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dale.ucdavis.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] For the past two years, I have been trying to operate a small mixed (DOS/BSDOS) network. I have been using doscmd to run a few DOS programs directly on the BSD/OD machines, and DesqVIEW/X under DOS to run DOS programs from the BSD/OS machines. All this sort of works, but not quite well enough, I'm afraid. There are still several "must have" DOS programs which will work using neither approach, plus DVX is a bear to configure. 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?) If this is a FAQ, I would appreciate a gentle steer toward the appropriate venue. TIA -- Greg Shenaut -- gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu