On Sun, 2 Nov 2025 at 19:30, peter--- via Freedos-user <[email protected]> wrote: > > Aim to take the CF card over to a PC 20+ years old and run FreeDOS and > Oberon there. Currently the machine has no working system. Installing > Linux and Qemu there would be another project.
Hi Peter. I am not sure of the exact question here -- Gmail has broken this thread into about 20 pieces for me. For what it's worth: I am dual booting DOS and Oberon on a Thinkpad X61 here. Specifically, IBM PC-DOS 7.1, the final OS in the original MS-DOS family, and A2 with Bluebottle. I blogged how to get PC-DOS 7.1 here: https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/59703.html A2 I am sure you know. Specifically I am quadruple booting: DOS, A2, Haiku and Linux. The Linux part is important. Under Linux I ran VirtualBox, and in that, ran the A2 installer against the real partition on the real physical disk partition. But you may know how to bypass the need for that. As a DOS boot manager, I highly recommend PowerQuest BootMagic. After Symantec acquired PowerQuest it made BootMagic freeware. Not FOSS, but small-f free. It is _the_ best DOS boot manager I know. I tried XOSL and it deleted partitions. However, it is FOSS. https://sourceforge.net/projects/xosl-ow/ I tried GRUB under Linux and found it a massive pain. However, it's the default, so we must live with it. Ditto IBM OS/2 Boot Manager, which worse still, needed its own primary partition, but that's a historical footnote now. I will not attempt to link to any questionable downloads, though. I suggest: 1. Install DOS first. 2. Use Gparted from a live USB or PartitionMagic under DOS to shrink DOS and make space for Oberon. Make an unformatted partition for it. 3. Install your boot manager. Get it working while there is only 1 option and it can be fixed as easily as "fdisk /s". 4. Install Oberon. 5. Add it to the boot manager. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven ~ LinkedIn/X/FB: lproven Email: [email protected] ~ Google: [email protected] IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
