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From: "Darwin J. Sanoy" <sanoydj@iscg.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,de.comp.os.os2.setup
Subject: Re: Boot managers for W95/DOS/Win311 and OS/2 and FreeBSD/Linux
Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 13:51:02 -0400
Organization: Integrated Systems Consulting Group
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To: Wilhelm Wienemann <wiene@kalwien.regio.rhein-ruhr.de>
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For maximum flexibility get two physical drives.
Your primary (if IDE) is used for partitioning for different operating systems. Use OS/2 boot manager since it
is the only one that really is operating system independant.
Format the second drive as FAT and install all of your programs and data on it.
This will allow you to format and repartition the daylights out of your operating system play drive.
You will need to re-install applications in each OS to have them work properly, but if you do not have a lot of
customizations you can simply install them over and over in same directory on the second drive.
The only tricky part is that the second drive drive letter will jump around depending on the order of
partitions and their file system format on the first drive. For instance NT recognize NTFS, HPFS and FAT, but
win 3.1 only sees FAT.
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Wilhelm Wienemann wrote:
>
> On Thu, 04 Apr 1996 02:11:37 GMT in comp.os.os2.setup.misc,
> Axel Thimm (axl@zedat.fu-berlin.de) wrote:
> : Hello,
> : I'd like to know more about how to manage multiple OSes on my PC. Are
> : there any FAQs for partitions/MBRs and booting sequences and for the
> : available boot managers? I'd like to configure my system as general as
> : possible and would like to prevent some mistakes beforehand.
> : Thank you in advance,
> : Axel Thimm.
>
> Hi Axel!
>
> On my HD I'm using DOS/Win3.11, OS/2 and LINUX in different
> partitions. For all OS I use the OS/2 Boot-Manager without
> any problems.
>
> If you have further questions mail me.
>
> ciao,
>
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