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From: mlevy@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Michael Levy)
Subject: Re: More coherent inquiries ...
Message-ID: <27FBA3D9.18408@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
References: <39467@fmsrl7.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 91 22:08:24 GMT

In article <39467@fmsrl7.UUCP> wehr@fmsrl7.UUCP (Bruce Wehr ) writes:

...deleted stuff I can't answer.
>
>I'd love to play around with it at home, but I don't want to give up my
>DOS environment yet that I (shamefully admit) rely so heavily on.  Can
>Coherent and DOS co-reside, such that the system can be booted under
>either?  Is anybody looking into a DOS-on-UNIX product for Coherent?
>
Dos and Coherent can reside on the same hard drive. I have a 286 with a
40 Meg hard drive. Upon installing coherent I was able to partition my
hard drive into two 20 meg logical partitions. The first partition is
the active partition which I have DOS on, so by default my system boots-up
to DOS. The second partition I have Coherent installed on. Installation
includes a boot-strap program from Mark Williams Co. so when my system is
booting up I type 1 (for logical partition #1 - Dos is on 0) and my system
will boot-up with Coherent. Installation is quite easy and being able to
have both operating systems on my hard drive is a big bonus.

Hope this helps.

Michael Levy
Department of Computer Science and Systems
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

mlevy@maccs.dcss.mcmamster.ca