On 11 Sep 00 at 10:38, arachne-digest wrote:
> >Is it possible to install an alternative DOS in addition to the existing
> >DOS version in a Windows 95 machine so that Windows will think it is
> >a "previous" version of DOS so that you can have an option to boot to the
> >"previous" version of DOS?

Hers's the way we did it on a couple of machines at work:

We used 2 commercial products, Partition Magic and System Commander.  With 
Partition Magic we created three partitions on one disk:  A FAT16 primary 
partition for MS-DOS 6.2, a FAT32 primary partition for Win95, and a FAT16 
secondary partition that can be seen by both.

System Commander selects the bootup option:  DOS 6.2, Win 95, or Boot 
Floppy.

The primary partition of either OS appears as drive C.  The secondary 
partition is drive D.  In either case, the primary partition of the other 
OS is "invisible".  If I want to xfer data from one OS to the other I 
simply copy it to drive D and then reboot.

A boot floppy created under the Win 95/DOS 7 partition can read all three 
partitions.  The Win95 partition appears as drive C, the secondary 
partition as drive D, and the MS-DOS 6.2 partition as drive E.

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