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From: rubin@watson.ibm.com (Bill Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 and native DOS on the same hard disk?
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Date: 19 Jun 91 14:51:10 GMT
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In <50592@ut-emx.uucp> rick@ut-emx.uucp (Rick Watson) writes:
> I have a PS2 model 50/Z.  Is there any way to partition the
> hard disk so that I can have OS/2 and a native DOS partition,
> rebooting to run OS/2 or DOS?

Yes, it's called OS/2 Dual Boot, and it's part of 1.3 (and 1.2).  You
install DOS on your hard disk, then install OS/2, and it recognizes that DOS
is there already and preserves the boot files.  Then when you want to go
back to DOS, you BOOT /DOS, and to go to OS/2 from DOS, BOOT /OS2.  You
aren't given a menu at startup time, however.

-- Bill rubin@watson.ibm.com
IBM TJ Watson Research