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- From: jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan)
- Subject: Re: IBM Value Point and OS2
- References: <19829@mindlink.bc.ca> <1993Jan26.143137.3608@njitgw.njit.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:03:14 GMT
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- dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
-
- >In article <19829@mindlink.bc.ca> Dan_Smith@mindlink.bc.ca (Dan Smith) writes:
- >>I just setup my new IBM Value Point 486SX which came preloaded with OS2. OS2
- >>has an 80 Meg partition, Boot Manager has a1 Meg partition and there is a
- >>mystery 1Meg partition at the end of the disk. I want to install both DOS
- >>and OS2 on the same partition and have read that they can be installed using
- >>the Dual Boot method. However the manuals all seem to indicate that the only
- >>way to install using Dual Boot is to install OS2 on an system that has DOS
- >>existing.
-
- >Yep. This is the nature of how DualBoot works. All it does is back
- >up the DOS system files on installation and install on top of it.
- >Then, when you do a BOOT/DOS or BOOT/OS2 command, the program copies
- >the proper system files (OS/2's or DOS's) onto the boot sector and
- >related space and boots.
-
- You can use the DBPREP (DualBoot Prep) utility to install DOS over an
- existing OS/2 setup. This is available from software.watson.ibm.com
- under /pub/os2/misc.
-
- --
-
- Jack Tan If your parents didn't have kids,
- jahk@uiuc.edu chances are you won't either.
-