I have acronis, that will setup a primary partition, but i need to fool dos 6.22 into installing to a secondary primary partition, how?
DM
On Mon, 19 May 2003 13:21:02 +0100 Pigeon <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
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Re: installing DOS on a partition without destroying a partition of data
From:
Pigeon <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk>
Date:
Mon, 19 May 2003 13:21:02 +0100
To:
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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.