On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 18:50:20 +0300, Jaak Kaljo wrote:
>>> This leads to a small dilema: Right here, I have diskettes for
>>> installing PC-DOS 2000. And PTS-DOS 2000 sounds promising as well..
>>> So.. which one should I install? :)
>> BOTH! Get some nice bootmanager that allows more than one primary
> partition. I would not dream of leaving one of them alone.
>> Per B.
> I made an extended partition and installed Caldera DR-DOS 7.03 on it. And I
> used a bootmanager called Extended-IPL (made by Takamiti Kimura 1997) which
> marks selected partition bootable. Extended-IPL even boots OS without
> checking validity of partition (whether 511th bytes of the partition is
> 0xaa55). I couldn't still boot DR-DOS from extended partition, my computer
> is just hanging...
If I recall, DR-DOS since 7.01 includes a boot manager that seems to
work. Someone who actually *uses* DR may correct me on that, though.
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boB
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