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- From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Kenneth A. Kahn)
- Message-ID: <19930121.103758.72@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 13:35:32 EST
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: No way to install OS/2 w/o Bootmanager together with DOS & 386BSD?
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- In <1993Jan20.193641.4845@delos.stgt.sub.org> Michael Giegerich writes:
- >Hello everybody,
- >
- >Any answers to the following problem?
- >On a system with one harddisk and already 2 partitions with
- >DOS and 386BSD on it: is it possible to install OS/2 without
- >the bootmanger option and without using dualboot?
- >
- >The install programm doesn't let me mark the free partition
- >as installable...
-
- The problem is if you install OS/2 V2 on a partition other than C:, there's
- no way to tell the system to BOOT from it; e.g. D: or E:, without a front
- end like the Boot Manager. You need to be able to make the alternate drive
- the 'active' drive, which you can't do witn BM or similar.
-