On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 12:11:03PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > On Sunday 18 May 2003 02:56, Kevin Mark wrote: > > Any bootloader can boot dos. > > the bootloader has nothing to do with the installation of the os > > but the bootloader has to be configured after the os is installed. > > if you have free space on your disk, just make a dos partition with > > cfdisk, fdisk,etc. Pop in your dos book disk, format c: /s, and that > > shoudl be it. > > But be careful: Dos and Windows need the C: partition to be the first > partition on the hd. Not so: I have 98SE running on the second partition for what little I cannot yet do satisfactorily in Linux (24-bit sound recording, mainly); I have another installation of 98SE running off the third partition of a different disk which is as vanilla and uncluttered as possible, purely for the purpose of playing MS Train Sim. > If you have free disk space only in a logical partition, > you are kind of lost => You will have to repartition your hd. This is true. You do need to be booting DOS off a primary partition. Note that it is not true that you cannot have more than one primary DOS partition on a drive: it's just that DOS FDISK won't let you do it. Linux partition table tools will, or you can hack it in DOS with the DOS version of Norton Utilities. My method of dual-booting DOS and Windoze is to have them both installed on primary partitions, only one of which has the bootable flag set; to boot the other OS, I execute a tiny little program to swap the bootable flag to the other partition, and reboot. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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