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Date:	Wed, 8 May 2002 16:17:30 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: SC, Partitioning problems, etc.

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Thanx for your reply, Ray. At long last, I have returned (for the time
being), from the System Rebuild netherworld, NIC Limbo, and Resource
Conflict Purgatory. At least for the old W4 partition. Other OSes or
partitions, I'm not sure yet. But once I put the new sound card back in,
all bets are off. In any case, you wrote:

> I am running SC 2000. On one machine I have had coexisting:

Is that the same as SC ver. 7.0, the one currently on the shelves ?

> DRDOS 7.03
> MSDOS 6 you can have as many versions of DOS as you want
> WIN95
> WIN98
> COREL LINUX
> OS/2 you can have as many versions of OS/2 as you want.

Yes, I used SC 3.x for many years, with great results. But it was a much
simpler setup then. I believe it was Sandy who posted here a few weeks
ago about an experimental box on which he ran several OSes under SC 7.0,
with no apparent problems. Right now, I'm using the ECS version of OS/2
Boot Mgr., which Tony managed to install with considerable difficulty.
I would like to hear from you &/or Sandy whether SC can co-exist with
this Boot Mgr. (even if the latter must be set *Not Active*), or if that may
be a dangerous proposition. If I have to choose, I might just leave it alone.

> I have never run WNT etc. It will install in an extended partition, so
> I assume - there's that word again - you can treat it like OS/2.

Presumably. I'm 100 % sure they support this OS. Far less sure what
degree of explicit support they offer for OS/2 these days.

> The only limitation I am aware of is: all boot files must reside below
> 1024.

Yes. His Eminence The Duck stopped by on Sunday and (gently) reminded
us that just about _nuttin'_ is capable of booting from beyond the 1024 cylinder
boundary, without the aid of a bootstrap loader (isn't that what you call
it ?) situated around the beginning of the drive. That is how NT was setup to
do this, and ditto for W2K.

This in fact turned out to be one of the giant banana peels we kept skidding
on for quite some time. SC will apparently make no difference in this regard.
This does not bode at all well for my original plan, which was to drop ECS
into L:, decidedly beyond that point.

Jordan

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