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- From: chrisr@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Ringe)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: OS2 - What is it ?
- Message-ID: <DNZ8PB1w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 08:05:12 MDT
- References: <1992Aug29.095440.11188@actrix.gen.nz>
- Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #1, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
-
- - 3. Boot manager - you can have multiple OSes sharing the same disk (or disks)
- - UNIX(s), OS/2(s), DOS(s)....please yourself. I think the limit is 5 different
- - systems. They can't see each other's partitions - especially UNIX's which are
- - formatted differently - boot you can boot which ever one you feel like at the
- - time from the boot menu (which you only see if you install this option). Boot
- - Manager takes about 2megs of disk space.
- -
- - Steve
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-
- Actually, you can have only 3, since each OS is setup on a separate
- PRIMARY PARTITION. You are only allowed 3 primaries and one extended per
- hard drive. However, I haven't tried to setup a PRIMARY with a second
- HD and see if one could use it as well.
-
- BTW - Boot Manager takes up ONE primary partition, leaving 2 for OS's. I
- have primary 2 as OS/2, and primary 3 as DR DOS (NOT ms-DOS <--lower case
- intent correct!). The rest (extended partition), is for PROGRAMS.
-
- CR.
-
- < SIG on Summer Holidays!! >
-