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- Installing Dual Boot on Your Computer
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- This file contains information on installing the MS OS/2 dual-boot
- option on your computer. The dual-boot option allows you to choose
- between the MS OS/2 and DOS operating systems each time you "boot" or
- start your computer, either by turning it on or by pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL.
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- During dual-boot installation, you need the following items:
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- - A DOS start-up disk that contains the files CHKDSK.EXE and either
- SYS.COM or SYS.EXE.
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- -The disk labelled "Dual boot disk" from your MS OS/2 package.
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- You will also need to know the location of the start-up files
- (AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS) you will use when you run DOS.
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- To install the dual-boot option on your computer, follow these steps:
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- 1. Install MS OS/2 on your computer.
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- 2. Insert a DOS start-up or boot disk in drive A and press CTRL+ALT+DEL.
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- 3. Remove the DOS start-up disk and insert the disk labelled "Dual boot
- disk". This disk contains the Dualboot utility.
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- 4. At the DOS A: prompt, type the following command:
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- dualboot
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- The dual-boot setup utility starts. Follow the instructions on the
- screen to complete the procedure.
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- After you install the dual-boot option on your computer, a message
- appears each time you start your computer, asking you which operating
- system you want to run.
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- You can turn the dual-boot option on or off or change any of the
- settings by running the Dualboot utility again. After you initially
- install dual boot on your system, you can run the Dualboot utility from
- either MS OS/2 or from DOS.
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- Re-installing or updating MS OS/2 or DOS will remove dual-boot. If MS
- OS/2 is re-installed, rerunning the dual-boot setup utility will
- re-install dual-boot. If DOS is re-installed, MS OS/2 will have to be
- re-installed before rerunning the the dual-boot setup utility.
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- WARNING:
- After you install the dual-boot option on your computer, you'll find
- copies of both the MS OS/2 and DOS configuration files in the root
- directory of your hard disk. When you start MS OS/2, the MS OS/2
- configuration files are renamed CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT and the DOS
- configuration files are renamed CONFIG.DOS and AUTOEXEC.DOS. When you
- start DOS, the opposite renaming process occurs: the DOS configuration
- files are renamed CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT; the MS OS/2 files are
- renamed CONFIG.OS2 and AUTOEXEC.OS2. The configuration files with the
- standard names and extensions always correspond to the operating system
- you start. Both sets of configuration files are necessary for the
- dual-boot option to work. Do not delete or rename these files.
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