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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Wanted: boot-switch UNIX/DOS
Message-ID: <2347@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 90 01:46:34 GMT
References: <7221@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <7221@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de> moeller@informatik.uni-kl.de (Henning Moeller AG Hagen) writes:

| I am looking for a boot-switcher to choose booting from either DOS or UNIX
| partition at startup-time. Unitl now, I have to switch the active partition 
| using fdisk all the time. That's annoying, isn't it?

  This is a "quality of implementation" issue in the UNIX. The SCO
variants and Dell V.4 give that option. I would like to see a program
for DOS which does the same thing, since some UNIX vendors don't have
it.

  You find it and I'll post it.
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bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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