On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 15:52:07 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 11:10:31 +0000, Carol Moon wrote:
>> Bastiaan asked if it is possible to have two or more operating systems
>> on one computer. Yes, with System Commander or Partition Magic or there
>> is hardware which allows you to switch between hard drives. I have a
>> device called "NickLock" and two hardrives in my PII. W98 on one HD,
>> DR-DOS and Linux on the other. There is also one called "Trios" with
>> which you can select one of three hard drives.
> Welcome to the list, Carol.
> I wonder if there is a cheap (free would be excellent) way to do
> this.
Fdisk for Linux can create as many as 4 bootable partitions
on the same physical drive. (my setup has 2)
Gdisk.exe can then hide/unhide/change active partitions
Heres how I do it on my 1st HDD
--- !w95.bat is located in the root dir of partition 1 ---
('hides' all of the Dos partitions from W95, 'unhides' the W95 partition
and makes that W95 partition active)
gdisk 1 /hide /p:1
gdisk 1 /hide /p:2
gdisk 1 /hide /p:3
gdisk 1 /hide /p:4
gdisk 1 /hide /p:5
gdisk 1 /hide /p:6
gdisk 1 /hide /p:7
gdisk 1 /hide /p:8
gdisk 1 /hide /p:9
gdisk 1 /hide /p:10
gdisk 1 /-hide /p:11
gdisk 1 /act /p:11
reboot.com
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--- !dos.bat is located in the root dir of partition 11 ---
('unhides' all of the Dos partitions, makes the Dos boot partition active
and 'hides' the W95 partition)
gdisk 1 /-hide /p:1
gdisk 1 /act /p:1
gdisk 1 /-hide /p:2
gdisk 1 /-hide /p:3
gdisk 1 /-hide /p:4
gdisk 1 /-hide /p:5
gdisk 1 /-hide /p:6
gdisk 1 /-hide /p:7
gdisk 1 /-hide /p:8
gdisk 1 /-hide /p:9
gdisk 1 /-hide /p:10
gdisk 1 /hide /p:11
reboot.com
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In the root dir of partition 1 is also located a saved MBR with LILO
which Fdisk for OpenDos can then restore and reboot to the 2nd physical
HDD where Linux is installed.
All of the above are available free of charge. :))
Any distro of Linux will come with the needed version of Fdisk for
creating multiple Dos-primaray partitions on the same physical HDD.
OpenDos and DrDos are still available for D/L here....
http://custom.lab.unb.br/pub/os/dos/
OpenDos/DrDos Fdisk itself is here....
http://custom.lab.unb.br/pub/os/dos/BETA/FDISK.COM
And Gdisk is here.....
http://home.attbi.com/~bcdowd/GDisk.exe
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