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From: push@panix.com (SeVeN)
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, 30 May 1996 19:53:53 GMT
Organization: P.U.S.H Systems
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androo@mindspring.com (Andrew Coleman) wrote:
>>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.
>
well if you're willing to spend some money, get a boot manager called System
Commander. This is the most robust boot manager I've ever seen or used. It is
very easily customized. I think the latest ver is 2.28. I'm using 2.12 and it's
so stable that I have not upgraded.
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