Raider wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Rupa wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
>
> Hi!
>
> > I need help installing linux using a dos partition. I tried installing
> > windows 95 and windows 3.1 on the same computer using a dos partition as the
> > boot, then setting up a menu that would allow me to choose betweem windows
> > 95 and windows 3.1, but windows 95 didn't want to use a dos 6.22
> > command.com. So I gave up, burnt my windows 95 cd, and snapped it in half. >:)
>
> This probem is valid only when trying to keep a non-m$ dos with
> windoze. You can keep windoze 95 and 3.1 happy over the same drive. Just
> remeber that at least one of them should use another directory than the
> standard c:\windows. You will have to eventually archive the directory
> where 3.1 is installed because 95 tends to do stuff without telling you
> (in this case upgrading). After you succesfully install 95, at boot time
> you'll press F8 and there will appear a menu. The last option is to boot
> the old dos version (with it's own settings which can be different than
> the ones for dos7, things like the cdrom drive). You boot the old dos,
> unarchive the 3.1 directory. And here you have it.
For a real boot in the old version of MS-DOS, you have to have in C:\
these files:
-autoexec.dos
-config.dos
-io.dos
-msdos.dos
-command.dos
-winboot.sys(if you have OSR2) - really needs
*the line BootMulti=1 in your C:\msdos.sys file - in the [Options]
section
*you can boot directly in the old version of DOS with F4 at the boot
time
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