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Date:	Fri, 10 May 2002 13:05:41 PST7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: SC, Partitioning problems, etc.

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"J. R. Fox" wrote:
>
>
> 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 ?

I have not seen it nor do I know how it differs. What I have works so I
have not gotten around to looking at it.
>
> > 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.
>
> I would like to hear from you &/or Sandy whether SC can co-exist with
> this Boot Mgr.
SC treats BM as an operating system. That is, if you select BM on the
SC menu, the next thing you get on the screen is BM and it will do
whatever you set it up to do.

> (even if the latter must be set *Not Active*),
Forget about setting things active or inactive, that is what SC is there
for.
> or if that may
> be a dangerous proposition. If I have to choose, I might just leave it alone.

I know it is an old friend for many of us. That is all my file storage
machine has because OS/2 installed it, that machine has only DOS and a
couple versions of OS/2, so I don't need any thing better. In your case
BM is just extra baggage. It is time for you to say goodbye.
>
> > 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.

SC 2000 is fine. As I said, I don't know about 7. Pick up a phone.
>
> > 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.
>
Why do you want to?
What is your reaction to my suggested layout?

Ray

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