NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/os/os2/advocacy/11024

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From: [e-mail] (DHALIWAL BIKRAM SINGH)
Subject: Will it go?
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Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
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Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:27:53 GMT
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I have two ST-251 hard-drives hooked into a single RLL controller on my
386-40.  Right know I have Linix (a free Unix with X-Windows) running on
my second hard-drive which I can boot to from a floppy (I have not got
around to setting up a dual boot).  My boot sector is located on my first
hard-drive which is exclusively a MS-DOS drive that has two partitions of
which only C: is Stacked, and D: is unstacked.

After much convolusion my question is can I install OS/2 on my second
hard-drive while still retaining DOS on my first hard-drive.  It would make
sense I suppose using OS/2's dual booter.  But should I make both HPFS
drives and get rid of DOS altogether?  Is OS/2's performance good enough
for such a task?????

I want to retain DOS because there is nothing as seamless as DOS itself and
Windows itself.  But, from what I have read in this newsgroup OS/2 sounds
pretty good.  Right now I have 4 megs, but plan to buy 4 more megs this week.
What do you think, I plan to use the eventual platform to develop software
in C for Windows and possibly OS/2 (I can't find any good OS/2 programming
mannuals).

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 Bikram Dhaliwal ([e-mail])
 Toronto        ([e-mail])