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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
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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.

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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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