Creating another partition

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From: David Deitch
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 1990 19:59

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You won't believe this, but back on 11/Oct/90 (was a Thu BTW) at
about 14:46, this guy Stephen Chung said this to All:

 > I am currently running DOS 4.01 on an 80M IDE drive.  I want to create
 > a separate partition (maybe 10M or so) so that DOS 3.3 can recognize
 > it when I boot it up from a floppy.  The problem: I don't want to
 > backup my hard disk (I have about 40M of stuff and no tape backup 
 > unit).

     Why go to any of this trouble?  The file formats used by 3.3 and 
4.01 are the same.  Only the utilities are different.  Simply set up 
two DOS directories on your HD, one for each version.  In your HD's 
autoexec and config.sys, set up a path to the 4.01 dos directory and 
shell to the command.com in your 4.01 directory. Then do the same 
thing on your floppy for the 3.3 directory.

     David Deitch (GIS)
          deitch@gisatl.fidonet.org
               1:133/411@fidonet
 


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From: david@gisatl.FIDONET.ORG (David Deitch)
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Subject: Creating another partition
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Date: 14 Oct 90 19:59:17 GMT
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