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From: androo@mindspring.com (Andrew Coleman)
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: Thu, 23 May 1996 04:55:28 GMT
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On 15 May 1996 16:14:06 +0100, brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian
Somers) wrote:

[snip]

>I have OS/2 & Win95 booting from OS/2's manager at the moment.  I've had
>FreeBSD and DOS booting from it.  You probably don't want to boot both
>DOS & Win95 - just press F8 after selecting Win95 and boot dos that way.
>You get to share your C: drive with Win95.  You can probably even boot
>OS/2, Win95 and DOS from the same partition !  The only problem there is
>you miss the 'what do you want to boot' option.

But what about NT? Any way to get it working with OS/2's boot manager
without having to go through a second menu in the 95 partition?

Any solutions appreciated. Thanks.

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