O(ff)T? or O(n)T? 22DISK on a PC - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

17 Jun 2004

On Jun 17, 21:38, Jules Richardson wrote:
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  On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 20:29, Joe R. wrote:
  At 09:22 PM 6/16/04 +0100, you wrote:
      In that case, you might want to give
this a try.
 <http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/Articles/BootItNG/>. 
 I don't recall Pete saying he needed to tweak an existing partition on a
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  drive though - or is there some other justifcation for
using that
 software? 
The problem of having DOS and Windows coexist.  It might be OK with XP,
which certainly coexists happily with earlier versions of Windows; I
don't know if that extends to DOS but I'm sure I'd find out quite
quickly if I tried it :-)  If I do I'll let the list know in case it
helps anyone else who needs an environment for retro software/hardware.

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  Currently I triple-boot the desktop PC between Linux,
Windows 2k and DOS
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  6.22 - but I'm using SCSI disks, so Linux and
Windows co-exist on the
 larger drive and DOS has a seperate drive all to itself. I just change
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  the boot SCSI ID in the SCSI BIOS to boot from the DOS
drive when I need
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  to. Not sure if there's an equivalent if
you're using IDE drives though.

Yes, it's called a DPDT switch ;-)  Or you can just use a boot floppy.

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  As an aside, I'm curious as to what (if any)
equivalents to 22disk there
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  are for Linux. Certainly it's probably a more
viable platform if you
 want to have hardware fitted at strange addresses or outside the scope
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  of the BIOS than DOS is. 
I've not seen anything and in fact last time I looked at Linux's
support for non-PC formats, notably anything that started it's sector
numbering at zero as %deity intended, it was sadly lacking (but that
was quite a while ago)

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  I have no idea what sort of control the kernel headers
allow you over
 the floppy controller(s) though. Of course you probably have a good
 reason for using 22disk - either a) because it's there 
That's the main reason.  I'd use teledisk for disk images, as people
seem to use that much more often.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York