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- From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
- Subject: Re: Boot manager trick. For those interested
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.001911.20020@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <1992Sep02.191127.29812@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 00:19:11 GMT
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- Erik van Linstee (linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl) wrote:
- > If you install the bootmanager to run OS/2 and some other OS, try
- > the following. Make a partition for boot OS's to fit in (like
- > 35Mb for OS2 and 2Mb for DOS) and make them both as primary. Now
- > if you installed both you can choose either one, but neither will
- > see the other. Of course you will need a third (now logical) partition
- > to keep your programs and data in, but the fun is that DOS can
- > never corrupt your OS2 system files and OS2 can't touch those of DOS.
- > You will always start up with your system on C: and your files on
- > D: while the other system is invisible.
- > Might come in handy for those who want a little extra security of either
- > system. In fact you can easily extend both partitions to contain the
- > files you don't want the other system to know about.
-
- This is OK as long as you don't want to use HPFS. The 35meg boot partition
- for OS/2 can be HPFS but the common d: drive must be FAT so it is visible
- when you boot dos.
-
- Since all your wokring files are on the FAT partition you don't benefit
- from HPFS as much as you would like. I use boot manager, and only have a
- FAT area so that when I boot DOS I can get to certain DOS specific
- utilities and some ill behaved games.
-
- --
- Tom J Parry.
- Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
-