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- From: COP80196@UCF1VM.BITNET (Bill Laird)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Can I have OS/2 and 2 ver of DOS?
- Message-ID: <92316.211327COP80196@UCF1VM.BITNET>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 02:13:26 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.101608.1@wharton.upenn.edu>
- Organization: University of Central Florida--Computer Services
- Lines: 42
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- In article <1992Nov11.101608.1@wharton.upenn.edu>, poe@wharton.upenn.edu says:
- >
- >Hello All.
- >
- >I'm just getting into configuring my system for OS/2. I have a question
- >about the boot manager. I'd appreciate any help on this one!
- >
- >My HD setup:
- >
- >Drive 1: 410MB Drive
- >C: 25MB Primary Partition, FAT; DR-DOS 6.0
- >E: 84MB Logical Partition, FAT; DATA
- >F:100MB Logical Partition, FAT; DOS/WIN applications
- >G:100MB Logical Partition, FAT; DOS/WIN applications
- >H:100MB Logical Partition, HPFS; OS/2 and OS/2 applications
- >*: 1MB BOOT MANAGER
- >
- >Drive 2: 100MB Drive
- >D:100MB Primary Partition, FAT; MS-DOS 5.0 is installed.
- >
- >Using FDISKPM, My boot manager has entries for DR-DOS and OS/2. I want to add
- >one for MS-DOS 5.0. The problem is, whenever I select drive 2, I cannot change
- >any attributes of the partition. I cannot add it to the menu, or give it
- >a name. (Or even delete it). I'd like to add it to my menu. Any suggestions
- >on how to it, or a reason why I can't? Please reply by E-mail.
-
- OS/2 is working as expected here. DOS must be installed on a primary C
- partition. I beleive that you can have up to three primary partitions
- on each physical drive. To use DOS 5, you will need to install it on your
- primary bootable drive. (aka the master). This will require you to at least
- repartition your E drive. One thing to consider with multiple partitions is
- that the multiple primaries must share the drive letter C. Therefore, you
- will only be able to access the contents of one primary partition at a time.
- Unfortunately, if you want to use two versions of dos, you don't have much
- of a choice.
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