From: bobbitchin AT hempseed DOT com
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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 19:05:14 -0700
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To: Jim Stevenson <jims AT eos DOT arc DOT nasa DOT gov>
CC: PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de, opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: new computers with Dos?
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System Commander and Partition Magic are reatail programs that will
allow you to resize an existing partition so you can install another
operating system like Fips. I have tried all three but they all seem to
have a problem with resizing a DR-Dos partition, I have asked about this
befor on thie list, it has something to do with the place DR-Dos stores
the partition info in the FAT. But for the aplication you are planning
either should work, I use System Comander, I like its boot menu better
and it has several more options that just make life easyer when
installing several operating systems on one HDD.

Jim Stevenson wrote:
> 
> When I buy a spiffy new machine with win98 and fat32 already installed,
> how can I install Dos without formatting the whole thing to fat16?
> 
> If you quote me, please put your comments first.
> I have already listened to my questions.
> 
> Thanks.