All right. To your judgement is presented a patch for the metakern
manual that I think will make things clearer for unexperienced users.
Hope it sounds OK:
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The best way to install FreeDOS on a common partition with
another OS would be to make a dump of its bootsector before it
is has been replaced by FreeDOS. OtherWise you'll have to
restore the original bootsector (using that OS's boot CD/disk)
first, then dump it (thus you may dump the bootsectors of up
to three OSes), restore FreeDOS via booting from a FreeDOS CD
(floppy disk) and invoking "sys c:" from the root of the RAM
drive (floppy disk), where the system files are located).
If you don't know how to store a bootsector in a file, one
method is to use oscheck. The following command will write the
bootsector into the file bootsect.bin, which you can rename to
whatever you want.
c:\bimg\>OSCHECK /S c:
Oschek can be downloaded from here:
www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/boot-sector-save-n-analyze-oscheck.zip
When you have got the bootsector images, proceed to
installation. You'll need:
1. metakern.bin (comes with matakern)
2. metaboot.bot (comes with metakern)
3. your bootsector dumps (say, they are os1.bot, os2.bot and
os3.bot and are located in c:\bsimng)
Assuming matakern.bin and metaboot.bot being in c:\fdos\bin,
1. c:\>cd \bsimg
2. Create a new kernel:
c:\bimg\>copy /b \fdos\bin\metakern.bin + \fdos\bin\metaboot.bot
+ os1.bot + os2.bot + os3.bot c:\metakern.sys
3. c:\bimg\>cd ..
4. Install the new kernel:
c:\>sys c: /K metakern.sys
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