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- From: pre1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Grant Prellwitz)
- Subject: Re: Boot Manager: Does any one have a compatibility list?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.073931.28464@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Summary: zero ID of Boot Manager to install NT
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: pre1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <1992Dec12.192416.9499@ichips.intel.com> <sal8.246.724201910@po.cwru.edu>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 07:39:31 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- In article <sal8.246.724201910@po.cwru.edu> sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec12.192416.9499@ichips.intel.com> jburns@pdxgp1 (John Justin Burns Jr.) writes:
- >>From: jburns@pdxgp1 (John Justin Burns Jr.)
- >>Subject: Boot Manager: Does any one have a compatibility list?
- >>Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:24:16 GMT
- >>I have been using the Boot Manager with a variety of OSs. I know that it
- [...]
- >>Windows NT (beta), Lan Manager, DOS 6.0, and earlier versions of DOS.
- >
- >The NT beta has code included that makes it absolutely refuse to install if
- >it detects the OS/2 boot manager on your hard drive. Pretty rude of MS if
- >you ask me (OS/2 does no such check for NT).
- >
- In Tim Sipple's benchmark document, he mentions a workaround for this. It
- is to zero the ID of the OS/2 Boot Manager partition.
- The document winbench.txt should be available for ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
-
- I agree, it is extremely rude, selfish, childish, and anti-social behaviour.
- Do you think Billy might have had something to do with it :^).
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