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From: sharon@asylum.SF.CA.US (Sharon Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Running OS/2 and MS-DOS on same computer
Keywords: OS/2, booting, fdisk, partition
Message-ID: <3486@asylum.SF.CA.US>
Date: 22 Aug 89 02:32:44 GMT
References: <55045@peregrine.peregrine.com>
Reply-To: sharon@asylum.UUCP (Sharon Fisher)
Organization: The Asylum; Belmont, CA
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In article <55045@peregrine.peregrine.com> chris@peregrine.peregrine.com (Chris Cole) writes:
>Is it possible to install and run both MS-DOS and OS/2 on the same
>computer?  I am trying to use devices (e.g., CD-ROMs and large
>removable disks) that have drivers for MS-DOS but not for OS/2.
>Can I do what I do with Xenix, have a non-DOS partition containing
>OS/2 that I make active with fdisk and reboot?  Can I force OS/2 to
>recognize DOS drivers under the compatibility box?

As I recall, some versions of OS/2 allow you to have DOS, and some do
not.  IBM's doesn't, for example, while some third parties' versions
do.
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