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- From: hoppie@kub.nl (Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers)
- Subject: Re: How do I set up Boot Manager correctly to access DOS Partitions?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.150904.1918@kub.nl>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 15:09:04 GMT
- Organization: Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
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- References: <1993Jan12.003332.26418@netcom.com> <C0qCxB.4B9@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <C0qCxB.4B9@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan) writes:
- |> lyle@netcom.com (Lyle Fong) writes:
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- |> >I would like to be able to see my DOS partition from within OS/2 (HPFS)
- |> >Currently, my partitions are set up so BOOTMANAGER is 1, OS/2 (PRIMARY)
- |> >is 2, and DOS (also PRIMARY) is 3.. should they be set to LOGICAL drives
- |> >instead of primary? etc.. any help appreciated..
- |>
- |> Boot Manager is always a primary partition. DOS also needs to be primary.
- |> OS/2 should be logical in order to access the DOS partition. (Only one
- |> primary paritition may be active; if both DOS and OS/2 are primary, only
- |> one accessed during any given boot.) It would be better to put the DOS
- |> partition right after the Boot Manager: if the order is OS/2 and then DOS,
- |> the OS/2 partition is C:, and the DOS partition is D: under OS/2. When DOS
- |> is booted, the DOS drive is C: (rather than D:, as under OS/2). This could
- |> be a big source of headaches, plus a lot of confusion in DOS batch files and
- |> the DOS CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT.
- |>
- |> I hope this helps.
- |>
- |> --
- |>
- |> Jack Tan If your parents didn't have kids,
- |> jahk@uiuc.edu chances are you won't either.
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- And, VERY IMPORTANT: use the FDISK from within the installation procedure, not
- directly from a prompt, because then the SetInstallable option won't work!
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- Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers, research engineer at | Stop connecting computers;
- Infolab, Tilburg University, The Netherlands | start connecting people!
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