Hi, I'll put off thinking of the wireless card until I get my dorm room. Anyway, I have a lot of Dos games that I would like to run (on 5 1/2 in disk, so I will probably be able to get a cheap drive from somewhere) and would like to know if I can multiboot FreeDos and Linux on my Pentium 266 (the one I brought to installfest)? Will Linux set up a way that I can choose what to run on startup?
Thanks, Steven P. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20030811/af2faac1/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 12 03:46:57 2003 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mat Branyon) Date: Mon Aug 11 21:46:58 2003 Subject: [brlug-general] Running Dos and Linux In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dont have to.. there are plenty of good dos emulators out there (at least one of which uses freedos). --mat On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 20:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'll put off thinking of the wireless card until I get my dorm room. > Anyway, I have a lot of Dos games that I would like to run (on 5 1/2 > in disk, so I will probably be able to get a cheap drive from > somewhere) and would like to know if I can multiboot FreeDos and Linux > on my Pentium 266 (the one I brought to installfest)? Will Linux set > up a way that I can choose what to run on startup? > > Thanks, > > Steven P. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20030812/0f7f7b9c/attachment.bin From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 11 16:19:38 2003 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (will hill) Date: Tue Aug 12 09:12:56 2003 Subject: [brlug-general] Running Dos and Linux In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 20:45:25 -0500 References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 2003.08.11 20:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'll put off thinking of the wireless card until I get my dorm room. > Anyway, > I have a lot of Dos games that I would like to run (on 5 1/2 in disk, > so I > will probably be able to get a cheap drive from somewhere) and would > like to > know if I can multiboot FreeDos and Linux on my Pentium 266 (the one I > brought to > installfest)? Will Linux set up a way that I can choose what to run > on > startup? > > Thanks, > > Steven P. > Lilo and grub both do this and most distros set up dual boot automatically at install time, if another OS is detected. I don't have an example with me, but you can find them on older Debian pages or a lilo howto. In the laziest of all worlds, just stick a DOS boot disk in. You might want to image those old floppies before they die. My windoze 3.1 and dos 6.2 floppies are crapping out, but I dont' really care.
