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In article <XZm7tCA9ANhxEwmp@draco.demon.co.uk>
           Tom@draco.demon.co.uk "Tom Welsh" writes:

} Now that I am getting a PC with two big SCSI HDDs, I would be interested
} to try out as many OS as possible/feasible. 8-}
}
} Question 1. Any opinions of the merits of the various software solutions
} for managing multiple partitions? I hear good things about Partition
} Magic, but they haven't answered my email yet.

Partition magic is very very good it runs native in OS/2 or DOS

} Question 2. Given that my system is likely to come with Windows NT on
} the C: drive, is there any way I can quickly and easily build a WfW 3.11
} system on the D: drive (so I can go on using all my familiar apps until
} I get used to WNT)? Of course, one way would be to scrub off the C:
} drive and start from scratch, but I'm reluctant to do that.

Get a sensible plan DOS and Win3.1 *will* not install on anything but
C: Make certain a NT CDROM is included for reinstalls, you will need
it

} Question 3. The OS I am interested in are WfW 3.11, W95, WNT, OS/2 Warp,
} and some form of Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, even Solaris or SCO if possible).
} Is it possible to run that lot together, and if there are constraints,
} what are they?

None really I run all these plus a Novell Server. NT can read HPFS
drives and runs well on them, OS/2 cannot see or read NTFS drives.

OS/2 Boot manager is just about the best bit of software IBM ever wrote
use it to control everything. You can install it and use OS/2 FDISK
without actually installing OS/2.

checkout http://www.ftech.net/~horizon/richard/harold.hts for a
description of how I set up a multi boot system

} Supplementary (for the _very_ patient): Is it possible to drive a
} Colorado T1000e parallel port streamer from WNT? (I have a sinking
} feeling WNT only talks to DAT drives, though).

No, I do not think so.  Both OS/2 and NT love SCSI, DOS and WIN95 eat
FAT shit, Linux/nnnBSD and Novell have their own files systems,
Partition Magic recognises them all.

If you have an Adaptec 2940 UW then the FreeBSD will just recognise
it, Linux and NetBSD won't, the new Linux FT 1.2 seems to, but I
haven't got the full disk set yet.

{R}