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Re: Dual boot - ODT and NT?

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From: Lori Kamus
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1995 15:44
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In article <3ejl54$gqs@b11.b11.ingr.com>, ndsimpso@nik.b11.ingr.com (Nik Simpson) says:
>
>In article <Pine.HPP.3.90.950105223837.17912A-100000@stimpy.mfa.com>,
>Michael A. Passineau <mikep@mfa.com> wrote:
>>Hello!
>>
>>Not being real familiar with the latest SCO ODT version, can
>>it allow for booting NTAS v3.5 from the : prompt like
>>it does with DOS?  If so what procedure needs to
>>be followed to get this, or do I need a patch, or?  We have
>>tried to get this to work but the NT boot fails.  This is a system that
>>has both an NT and ODT partition on the same disk.
>>
>        When you install SCO, leave a "DOS" partition large enough for NT.
>Then load NT. Set the SCO partition to be active and type "dos" at the 
>Boot: prompt to access NT.

One addition to this is that if NTAS 3.1 was loaded on an NTFS
instead of a FAT file system, "Boot:dos" would yield an error
about the [DOS] partition being unknown. Using fdisk from SCO 
UNIX would show that the NTFS was seen as an HPFS; have you
tried loading the NTS 3.5 on a FAT?
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From: lakamus@ingr.com (Lori Kamus)
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Subject: Re: Dual boot - ODT and NT?
Date: 6 Jan 1995 15:44:54 GMT
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