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RE: Exe files(For Tuncaydin6)

• Posted by tacitus <indorlaw at zdnetonebox.com> Mar 07, 2001
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sorry

having stuck my nose in, it occurred to me that i overlooked something 
else too important not to mention.

you have to be mindful of paths. the OS on the first drive will see the 
second partition or drive as d:, whereas the second OS will see its same 
partition as c:. (or at least, you hope so, otherwise its autoexec.bat 
and config.sys will not be properly read). that works on my system ok 
because i have win3.11 on the second drive and it can't see the first 
FAT32 drive anyway. but i'm not sure if it recognises its own drive as 
c: because the first partition is invisible to it or because the dos OS 
labels its own drive first regardless.

you can see this could cause problems if you put win95B or win98 on the 
second drive and they see their own drive as d: (and fail to load 
properly) or if you want to share files between both OS's that include 
absolute path references.

have i confused things sufficiently now?

tacitus



 
Irv Mullins wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gerardo <gebrandariz at YAHOO.COM>
> To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 11:28 PM
> Subject: RE: Exe files(For Tuncaydin6)
> 
> 
> > Irv,
> >
> > I believe Windows will see every DOS partition in the system, as long as
> one
> > is the main one and all others are created as logical units within an
> > extended DOS partition.
> 
> If I have two drives, both with Windows, so that I can boot from either 
> (via
> CMOS
> settings) will Windows be able to use both drives? I haven't tried this.
> 
> > As for Linux, there is a way to see its partitions from Windows, but 
> > it's
> > not cheap (around $300). You need a Virtual Machine. There's a very good 
> > >
> one at http://www.vmware.com
> 
> For far less than $300 (read: free) I got an old 486, without monitor, 
> which
> runs Samba and NFS (SuSE Linux), so its files are usable by any pc on my
> home.net.
> Any file I think I might want Windows to be able to use, I store there. 
> This
> works fine,
> and gives me some protection against losing stuff whenWindows crashes.
> 
> Regards,
> Irv
> 
> 
>