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- From: allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: DOS + OS/2 2.0 + 386bsd 0.1 installation .....
- Message-ID: <22300@venera.isi.edu>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 01:26:55 GMT
- References: <1992Aug28.220423.9273@umr.edu>
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- Reply-To: allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard)
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- jlu@cs.umr.edu (Eric Jui-Lin Lu) writes:
- > After spending nights of reformats, reboots, and reinstallations, I
- > kinda came out a wierd combination of DOS, OS/2, and 386bsd in one
- > hard disk. I used os-bs ...
-
- I have not yet tried to use os-boot. I used to have DOS, OS/2, and
- 386BSD each in their own primary partion, and used the OS/2 boot
- manager in a fourth (and final) primary parition. In other words, I
- had:
-
- OS/2 boot manager 1 meg
- OS/2 HPFS 40 meg
- DOS FAT 200 meg or so
- 386BSD 200 meg or so
-
- (I'm on a 490meg Fujitsu disk)
-
- I did not like this solution for a couple reasons. First, since these
- are all primary paritions, they are invisibile to each other. Second,
- 386BSD /usr/dist/bin/shutdown -todos does not currently work if the
- DOS partition is > 32 meg.
-
- So, I now am using a different solution.
-
- free space 2 cylinders (I'm hoping that os-boot will go here)
- DOS FAT 31.2 meg (some integral number of cylinders)
- 386BSD 250 meg
- DOS extended 200 meg or so
-
- I have a 160meg logical D: FAT partition in the extended partion and
- I am going to install OS/2 in its own logical partition, which is
- possible, according to OS/2 documentation. I have not yet tried to do
- so, however.
-
- The advantages to my current setup are that I can now do shutdown -todos
- and, once I have OS/2 up, it will be able to see the DOS D: drive,
- hence enabling me to share DOS files with OS/2.
-
-
- > ... I'm not quite satisfied with this. Since
- > when I choose OS/2, OS2 boot manager menu comes up. I wish to
- > eliminate this OS/2 boot manager totally.
-
- The only reason I can think of for it to be there is because you
- have a seperate OS/2 boot manager partition which is what os-bs
- is actuallty booting to when you chose OS/2.
-
- Dennis
- allard@isi.edu
-