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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) 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 Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,de.comp.os.os2.setup Date: 24 May 1996 12:25:52 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4o46c0$gr@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4jv7ia$t5o@fu-berlin.de> <Dq4tCM.1Iu@kalwien.regio.rhein-ruhr.de> <31923086.445C@iscg.com> <4nb164$3ml@ns.oar.net> <4ncsbu$17u@anorak.coverform.lan> <31a3ef55.1158286@news.mindspring.com> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95:11398 comp.os.os2.setup.misc:14871 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20175 Andrew Coleman (androo@mindspring.com) wrote: : On 15 May 1996 16:14:06 +0100, brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian : Somers) wrote: : [snip] : >I have OS/2 & Win95 booting from OS/2's manager at the moment. I've had : >FreeBSD and DOS booting from it. You probably don't want to boot both : >DOS & Win95 - just press F8 after selecting Win95 and boot dos that way. : >You get to share your C: drive with Win95. You can probably even boot : >OS/2, Win95 and DOS from the same partition ! The only problem there is : >you miss the 'what do you want to boot' option. : But what about NT? Any way to get it working with OS/2's boot manager : without having to go through a second menu in the 95 partition? : Any solutions appreciated. Thanks. I'm not running NT, but I know someone who is (david@raffles.demon.co.uk). I'll see if I can get him to stick OSBS on his system - that'll do it all if it does NT. : ___________ : Rev Andrew P Coleman : PGP public key at http://www.mindspring.com/~androo/pubkey.html : Kierkegaard: Only in contrast is there freedom. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....