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How to set up multi-boot system?



Jerry,

Even "system commander" will not let you boot win 98 and earlier from
anywhere but the first partition on the first drive.  You could remap the
drive goemetry to fool something, but that is cheating!

I think you are right on the money here.

Chuck Young
GTE Internetworking

On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Jerry Feldman {75562} wrote:

> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:24:56 -0400
> From: Jerry Feldman {75562} <gzf at gbr.msd.ray.com>
> Cc: discuss at Blu.Org
> Subject: Re: How to set up multi-boot system?
> 
> Derek Martin wrote:
> 
> > I don't think this is true, but even if it is I'm positive that windows
> > does not need to be on the first one, because I've done this before. So
> > you can use partition magic to move/resize partitions, and install dos on
> > the hda1 partition, if need be.
> Windows itself (3.1,95, and 98) can certainly be placed on any partition. 
> I am still under the impression that DOS must be on the "C:" drive (or
> floppies), even when using LILO as a boot manager. 
> 
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