On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 13:08:24 -0500, Barry Kaufman wrote:
>4) Goal is to be able to run SWEEP, LIST, VIEW, WIN3.11, PKZIP, etc.
>etc., plus all DOS shareware, commercial programs and WIN3.1
>applications that I am now running with DOS 6.22. But, now have 32 bit
>FAT and able to access shared D: logical partition at location that is
>higher than 8GB into HD memory map.
Hi Barry -
Well, you don't want much, do you? :-). I think I may have been the one to suggest
IBM's PC dos, but as you figured, it is a straight FAT16 solution.
I don't quite undestand why you have to have the shared partition above 8 GB however.
FAT32, particularly Microsoft's new extended partiton table
wrappers, is a nastly little piece of work. For some details, you can check out an
review I did of Partition Magic 5, at http://www.scoug.com. Much nicer to
have a setup with NT 4 for those who have to have Winx, and NTFS.
If your concern is to simply be able to run your favorite DOS and Windows 3.1 programs
in a program space over 8GB, that's fairly easy. Get a copy of OS/2
Warp 4, use either its Boot Manager or PowerQuest's Boot Magic, and load OS/2 into a
logical partition that you can create wherever you want. OS/2 will
run all the DOS programs that I have needed to use like WordPerfect & dBASE & Paradox
& Quattro Pro etc, etc. It will even let you assign over 640k RAM
to each DOS program and set separate startup values for each. As to Windows 3/1, the
WinOS2 that comes with OS/2 is officially licensed Windows 3.1
code from Microsoft, with IBM win2k fixes.
If you need to share files back & forth between operating systems, you can use a Zip
or other removable media drive. If you need to share data on the hard
drive, then you are going to have to do some repartitioning, I'm afraid. There are a
couple of solutions there as well, but I've rambled on quite enough.
Hope this helps,
Tony Butka
