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Some operating systems run quite happily from the same partition.
Corel Linux and BeOS can, for example, be installed in a Windows (DOS)
directory. OS/2 and DOS can live happily in the same partition.
To boot from your other drive is fairly simple: Make the one that is
a master now into a slave, and vice versa. Now your D: drive will be your
c: drive. The first time you may have to boot from a floppy and run "fdisk
/mbr" to write a boot sector to that HD.
If your D: drive is on the same hard disk, but in a separate
partition, run fdisk, then select "Set active partition" (or soemthing
like that, depending which fdisk you are using).
Windows 95, 98 and ME are really only glorified menu systems running
on top of a quite conventional DOS. Event though that DOS has been
somewhat simplified compared with earlier DOS-only versions, both Windows
95 and 98 can bee booted to DOS only, without running Windows. If a DOS
application does not run in that environment, then that application is not
compatible with that particular version of DOS, and not the other way
round. But I found that most applications run fine in DOS versions higher
than 6.2, if Windows is not loaded on top of them.
Windows NT (2000, XP) is an off-shoot of OS/2 (or the other way
round, I forgot...), and is not DOS-based. It uses a built-in DOS
emulator. In OS/2 that emulator was clearly visible, and it was possible
to switch between it and the native OS/2 (NT) systems at the
command level. Microsoft removed that facility in NT, and the native OS
cannot be accessed any more, only a rather inferior emulated DOS, which
handles many system calls completely different than any other DOS. hence
problems with the running of many programs.
Hope this helps.
Dr. Ron
-------Original Message-------
Date: Sunday, 29
December 2002 05:56:06 AM
Subject: Re: Two or
more OS's
Welcome Carol,
Of course there must be a separated
partition for each operating system
or two or more harddisks...
but
my problem is in booting I suppose.
On HD #2 = d:\ there is a DOS 5.1
and on C:\ there is Win95 with DOS
build into it.
Booting can be
done to C:\ only and than the DOS in Win95 is booted.
This DOS-version
causes some bugs in Arachne so I would rather like to
boot from D:\.
But how?
Futhermore newer Win versions like XP do not support DOS
so double
booting with DOS GUI is not possible because there is no DOS
in WinXP.
So... how would anyone with a factory installed WinXP or
something like
that run Arachne?
Anyone...?
CU,
Bastiaan
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.
> Sam Ewalt
> Croswell,
Michigan, USA
> -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
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