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From: REDELMAN@auvm.american.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 and native DOS on the same hard disk?
Message-ID: <91169.101404REDELMAN@auvm.american.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 91 14:14:04 GMT
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I solved this problem using a program called Multiboot which is
from Bolt Systems (4340 East West Highway, Bethesda, Md. 20815,
301-656-7133).  Multiboot allows you to install both DOS and OS/2
on the same drive and at start-up, select which system you would
like to boot.  (Multiboot doesn't care whose DOS you're using.)

I have run Multiboot on a Model 70 using IBM-DOS 3.30 and OS/2 1.1.
I currently run it on a Model 90 using MS-DOS 4.01 and OS/2 1.3.
The installation is simple and the price is very reasonable...about
$40 new and $15 for an upgrade. The disk is partitioned under DOS
(I have a 320 partitioned as a DOS "C") and both systems run in
the same partition.

My main reason for doing this was some communications packages and to
run Fastback which won't work in the OS/2 DOS box.

Richard Edelman
202-885-1948