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Richard,

You are up late. Does your computer play a tune when news arrives too?
My excuse is that the wife's gone to see her mother this weekend:)

Richard Ashton wrote:
> 
> In article <3616AE98.E89BDFE9@nospam.demon.co.uk>
>            chris@nospam.demon.co.uk "Chris Priest" writes:
> 
> <impressed> <snip a Thinkpad with 11 operating systems on it> </impressed>

> } > NT4 will install on any logical partition but needs a C: to seed from.
> } > OS/2 doesn't care where it loads
> }
> } I know, but both seem to care where C: is physically, not logically.
> 
> Indeed. They seem to want to be at the begining. A DOS hangover or MBR
> restriction I expect

Could be. Win95 seems slightly more partition friendly that NT. You too
boot to NT from the first C:. They do all at least take BootMgr into
account. It was the OS2 intall having this problem that really surprised
me. 

> <snip>
> } into the second C:, but on the reboot, NTLDR did not even get as far as
> } showing the selection menu. It just hung with the BIOS messages on
> } screen. No problem when using the first C: though.
> 
> Strange :(

Got me wondering what goes through the minds of MS programmers too. 

> <snip snip>
> the linux Floppy bring up Linux FDISK *not* DRIUD and re assign the partition

I don't like DRUID either. 

> <snip> 
> I love MQ series I recommend it to everybody I meet, then duck and say I
> only understand a bit about protocols in OSI layers 1-6, and that an MQ
> message is just another packet of data to me, how do you wish it
> shipped, sir ?

(Someone I know counts the number of different ways 'MQSeries' is
mis-spelled.)
Another satisfied customer, and you got the point. My wife and I worked
on the development team for the first MVS version for 2.4 years. The
chief architect, Dick Dievendorf, left IBM a couple of years later and
went to work for MS on MSMQ. (Did I hear someone way that MS have never
invented anything?) You may be interested to know that the next release
oF MQ/NT (v5.1) will be much better integrated with NT server and MS
backoffice programs (IIS, MTS, MSCS, SQLS...).

> <snip>
> Networking is easy 
Not IMHO. Especially not SNA/LU6.2.
> everything, I have talks to everything else, ethernet or
> Token Ring no problems even getting 98 to browse resources on Warp Server.
> Lots of pitfalls for the unwary :(

I have dug myself a few pits here. I shall bulldoze everything flat and
start again.

> Now if NT co-operated and didn't want to play silly SID [I wanna be God]
> games everything in the garden would be rosey. Fuck Gates.

Thanks again for your help, and FG too. I'll be able to figure out the
partitioning now,
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Chris@idol.d.c.u