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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!ugle.unit.no!lise.unit.no!hafting
- From: hafting@Lise.Unit.NO (Helge Hafting)
- Subject: Re: Boot manager trick. For those interested
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.112124.24600@ugle.unit.no>
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
- References: <1992Sep02.191127.29812@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 11:21:24 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1992Sep02.191127.29812@donau.et.tudelft.nl>, linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:
- > 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.
- >
- > Erik
- >
- > --
- > Erik van Linstee | linstee@duteca.et.tudelft.nl | I'll be back ...
-
- I prefer to install dos on a (small) C: partition using the FAT system,
- and OS/2 on an extended D: partition using HPFS.
- That way, dos cannot corrupt os/2 files, because dos cannot use HPFS.
- But os/2, wich usually don't corrupt anything, can see the dos partition,
- and even boot dos form c: in a window...
- Boot manager is still used to choose os at boot.
- This setup gives one partition less, so it is possible to install a
- third os as well.
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