On Monday 19 January 2004 01:33, John Andersen wrote:
On Sunday 18 January 2004 14:49, James Knott wrote:
Well, actually IBM calls the ability to boot OS/2 or DOS from the same partition "Dual Boot".
I doubt that IBM would make such a silly mistake as suggesting you could boot OS/2 or DOS from the same partition.
Same disk, maybe, but not the same partition.
http://www.os2ezine.com/v1n2/heath.html OS/2 users have the option to boot between more that one OS. This is done by one of two utilities, Boot Manager or Dual Boot. Although they both let you boot between at least two operating systems, they work very differently and have their own advantages and drawbacks. Dual Boot is the default install option for OS/2, and is the more basic of the two. It allows a user to boot either OS/2 or DOS (and therefore Windows 3.x or Win95), but OS/2 and DOS/Windows both reside on the same partition. Users have the ability to switch between the two by going into the \OS2 directory and typing the command "BOOT /OS2" or "BOOT /DOS". This is the only solution for installing OS/2 on a partition that already has DOS, and can't be backed up and re-partitioned. However, it also limits you to using FAT as your file system.