Help! Mutli OS Setup
J. Chin-Fat Fong
Just got myself a 1.7GB and find out I cannot setup more three OS into the
same HD by using Boot Manager. Is there any other programs that allows me
to do that.
I want to install - DOS, Win95 English, Win95 Chinese & OS2! (oh! Linux if
possible) Also, I would like there is an extra drive letter that all the
OS can access. (except Linux)
Anyone can help??
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J o h n F o n g C a r l e t o n U n i v e r s i t y
Email address: jcf...@chat.carleton.ca Computer Science - Software
Roderick W. Smith
In message <4pffrr$8...@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> - jcf...@chat.carleton.ca
(J. Chin-Fat Fong) writes:
>
> Just got myself a 1.7GB and find out I cannot setup more three OS into
> the same HD by using Boot Manager.
This isn't true. My current system has four OSes (DOS 6, OS/2 Warp 3.0, OS/2
2.1 emergency boot [I've just never bothered to upgrade this to Warp], and
Linux) all bootable via Boot Manager. I believe I've added other OSes briefly
for testing purposes once or twice. Your specific setup, though, is a bit
different....
> I want to install - DOS, Win95 English, Win95 Chinese & OS2! (oh! Linux
> if possible) Also, I would like there is an extra drive letter that all
> the OS can access. (except Linux)
Well, drat! I just posted that I'd yet to see anybody post a setup that would
be impossible to get around because of Boot Manager's chewing its own
partition, and now this comes along! Hrumph. ;-)
DOS and Win95 both must boot from primary partitions (I believe on the first
physical drive). Therefore, because the number of primaries is limited to
four (or three plus any number of extended/logical partitions) if the English
and Chinese versions must each have their own boot partition, Boot Manager
won't handle this on a single hard drive. I see basically three possible ways
around this:
1) Put two or more of DOS and the two varieties of Win95 on the same
partition. Somebody posted a URL about a week ago for a shareware
utility that will do this, and I think I heard that System Commander
(a commercial program) will do the same. Unfortunately, I didn't
keep the URL, so you'll have to hunt to find it. There may also be
some way to get the English and Chinese versions of Win95 to
coexist using Win95-specific utilities, but I'm not a Win95 expert,
so I can't offer specific advice on this.
2) Use a boot loader other than Boot Manager. Linux's LILO might do
the trick, though the last I heard it had problems booting OS/2 from
an extended/logical partition, so if this is still true it won't
really help. (This was a while ago, so this deficiency may have
been overcome.) System Commander will probably also do the trick.
3) Don't install DOS, but boot it from floppy. You can almost
certainly still put the DOS utilities on your hard disk and just
boot the bare essentials from floppy. This may be a bit tedious
(you may need to re-insert the boot floppy every now and then),
but it should work.
Both OS/2 and Linux can boot from extended/logical partitions, so these won't
be problems. If you use a solution which puts more than one primary OS
partition on the hard drive, bear in mind that only one will be "visible" at a
time under DOS, Win95, or OS/2 (Linux can see EVERYTHING, if you set it up
that way). Therefore, programs which must be used from more than one of these
OSes must be on an extended/logical partition.
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Adrian Parkash Suri
> Just got myself a 1.7GB and find out I cannot setup more three OS into the
> to do that.
>
> possible) Also, I would like there is an extra drive letter that all the
> OS can access. (except Linux)
>
>
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> J o h n F o n g C a r l e t o n U n i v e r s i t y
Regrads
Adrian
Paul Ratcliffe
Marcel Mueller
> What's the point in replying to a 20 year old message?
But what's the point for the full quote? ;-)
Marcel
Paul Ratcliffe
<news.5...@spamgourmet.org> wrote:
> On 29.06.16 20.40, Paul Ratcliffe wrote:
>> What's the point in replying to a 20 year old message?
>
> The answer is simple: googlegroups.com
One might have assumed the previous poster would have looked at the
date stamp.
> But what's the point for the full quote? ;-)
dozen or several hundred.
Don't try and be clever.