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Stephane (plas@fmi.ch) wrote:
: Pascal Junod <pjunod@iiic.ethz.ch> wrote in article
: <32EE11DA.30E0@iiic.ethz.ch>...
: > Hello, 
: > 
: > supposons que je veuille installer Win NT4.0, Win 95 en dos 7, loinux et
: > OS2 Warp ? Je sais qu'il existe des logiciels commerciaux, mais qu'en
: > est-il des sharewares ??? Est-ce fiables ?
: > 
: > Pascal, le fou d'OS

: Pascal

: There is one little feature in IBM's OS/2, which could help you. It is
: called "dualboot.exe" and allows you to have a multibootable environment.

No!! The "dualboot" allows you to have OS/2 on the SAME partition as DOS
or Windows. What Pascal needs is a "BootManager":

BootManagers allow you to have different Operation Systems on different
partitions, and you can choose which OS you want to run at boot time.

OS/2 and Linux have BootManagers included (its called LILO in Linux, as
far as I know), but you should know quite a lot about Harddisks, partitio-
ning and the way DOS assigns drive letters.

Look at 
  http://pclt.cis.yale.edu/pclt/boot/default.htm ("Getting the Boot")
for a good guide to this problem.

BTW: The program included in Windoze95 is NOT a BootManager! It's only
some sort of config.sys selector program. It doesn't allow you to boot
any other OS apart from Windows95/DOS. (As far as I know. Please correct
me, if I'm wrong)

Greetings
- Urs

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