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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.ios.com!usenet From: "David M. Fogarty" <DaveChaos@aol.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,de.comp.os.os2.setup Subject: Re: Boot managers for W95/DOS/Win311 and OS/2 and FreeBSD/Linux Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 17:48:04 -0500 Organization: Francosteel Corporation Lines: 24 Message-ID: <317C0CA4.3FD2@aol.com> References: <4jv7ia$t5o@fu-berlin.de> <Dq4tCM.1Iu@kalwien.regio.rhein-ruhr.de> Reply-To: DaveChaos@aol.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-4.ts-1.nyc.idt.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Macintosh; I; 68K) To: Wilhelm Wienemann <wiene@kalwien.regio.rhein-ruhr.de> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95:8008 comp.os.os2.setup.misc:13168 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17973 I too use the OS/2 boot manager. The worst problem I had was Win95 setting its own partition active thus bypassing the OS/2 Boot Manager. This was easily remedied by running fdisk and setting the boot manager partition active. The only thing to look out for as far as partitioning as generally as possible is whether to choose Primary or Extended for partition types. Primary partitions generally can not be seen from other Primary partitions. eg: DOS (Or Win95) partition as Primary, OS/2 as primary; You will not see the DOS partition from OS/2. With DOS as Primary and OS/2 as extended you can see the dos drive under OS/2. One other major thing to look out for.... After installing OS/2's boot manager (assuming that is what you go with...) be sure to install DOS next if you intend to have one. Most versions of DOS are rather silly and insist on formatting any partitions they cannot read. I was given a choice of Formatting my FreeBSD drive or quitting.... Bummer! :) Good luck!! -Dave