there is an os in development that says its going for multi-os support in 1
os, www.freedows.org
do a search for alternative os's on yahoo
-James, N9XLC
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From: newbreed <
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To: 
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Date: Wednesday, June 03, 1998 11:23 AM
Subject: RE: LINUX newbie /RE: Java on strongArm or in linux?
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: 
>[mailto:]On Behalf Of R. Paul McCarty
>Sent: June 3, 1998 6:53 AM
>To:
>Subject: Re: LINUX newbie /RE: Java on strongArm or in linux?
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>Ashley Clark wrote:
>>
>> > 100M. Caveat: I believe you need a primary partition to install linux.
>> > If each of your os's is using a primary partition, you should have room
>> > for one more (IOW: you have three primary partitions and an ide disk
can
>> > have up to 4). There are several options for booting linux, so that
>> > shouldn't be a problem for you (i.e. loadlin.exe to boot linux from
>> > dos/win, lilo, whatever boot manager you are using).
>>
>> I'm not sure about OS/2's boot manager or system commander but if you use
>LILO
>> as your MBR you can boot off of any partition, primary or extended. I
>believe
>> (correct me if I am wrong) that at least OS/2's boot manager allows the
>same.
>>
>> Ashley Clark
>
>Maybe. I never tried it. I just remember somewhere in the install it
>tells you you need a primary partition to install linux in. But it may
>be assuming you don't have a boot manager.
>
>-Paul McCarty
>
>
>[PK] There are no partitions on my system. DOS, WIN 3.1 and WIN95 are all
on
>the one drive, C: Directory. The boot mgr is really just the 'Windows 95
>Start-up Menu'. There are a list of options from 1. to... including
starting
>in DOS or WIN95 (DEFAULT). From *within* Win95 I can go to DOS or run any
>DOS or WIN3.1 application. If I remember right, this came about because
>originally when I received the P-150 SCSI system, it had WIN95 (with its
>scaled down DOS 7 version). But the original DOS 6.x had been deleted after
>the WIN95 install. However I needed the full DOS 6.x. So we then
>re-installed the old DOS after WIN95. Then we added WIN 3.1. It was a bit
>tricky but it worked. Now within WIN95 I can run any DOS based or WIN 3.1
VR
>app and return to the 95 desktop when I exit the app.
>
>I'm probably pushing it with the idea of adding LINUX now. But I've always
>thought though that a "computer" should be universal by being multi-OS
>capable... be-it BEOS, WIN, DOS, Apple's System 8 or a brand of UNIX. I
>suspect getting to the wearable computing stage may lead ultimately to some
>sort of universality in personal computing. I guess that's my brand of
>politech. =;]
>
>Paul K.
>NEWBREED
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