I have a old Dell laptop that was originally XP that now is tri-boot. I
have FreeDos 1.3 RC5, XP, and even Linux.
In order to do this you cannot simply install everything normally, at least
as far as I know. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong here.
Here is the steps that I found that works:
First wipe the drive that you want to use, then using fdisk setup a
partition for FreeDOS and another for the other operating system as an
extended partition. Format and install FreeDOS on the first partition. Do
nothing for the second partition. Leave it alone until you have installed
FreeDOS installed andworking.
Once it is installed and working, install the Linux distro you want and
tell it to setup and use the second partition you had set up in fdisk.
This should allow you to use both Linux and FreeDOS together.
Notice: Order of install matters! If you installed Linux, then installed
freeDOS you will need to update your grub to see and use the new FreeDOS
system which can be a pest.
I hope this was helpful.
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> Il 26.01.2022 00:39 Jerome Shidel ha scritto:
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> >> On Jan 25, 2022,
> at 4:16 PM, andrea...@tiscali.it [1] wrote:
> >>
> >> OK, it's an old
> annoing question:I have a laptop with linux installed and I created
> another dos / fat 32 partition where I installed freedos 1.3. (before
> installing freedos I activated C:ms-dos with part.exe).
> >> OK Freedos,
> but disappears Linux MBR, and I can't anymore access linux although I
> have grub installed.
> >> With GAG cd live you see linux but it is not
> loaded due to problems in the MBR.
> >> The only way to repair the MBR and
> log in again in linux was to use the BOOT REPAIR live cd.
> >> Or another
> way to solve the problem?
> >> Thanks,
> >> andrea
> > During installation,
> the installer creates two backups and stores them in C:FreeDOS as
> BOOT.MBR and BOOT.BSS. The MBR is created by FDISK when it is told to
> update the boot code. The second is created by the SYS command. You
> should be able to use FDISK to restore the MBR.
> > There is an excellent
> free DOS utility called MBRTOOL. It is not open source and has some
> other distribution restrictions. But, it is free and can be legally
> distributed as-is. Do to those restrictions it cannot be included with
> the FreeDOS release. But, you can grab a mirrored copy from my website
> at https://fd.lod.bz/redist/disk/MBRtool/ [4] v1.x is much smaller than
> v2.x. But, both work really well. It is a great tool to have laying
> around for emergencies.
> > :-)
> > Jerome
> > Thank you for your interest,
> I will try to be more careful when I install freedos next time
> >
> >>
> andrea
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> From: Jerome Shidel
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> Hello Fabian,
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> I just did several tests and am unable to replicate the issue you are
> having. More information is needed.
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> > On Jan 26, 2022, at 3:32 AM, Fabian Boucsein
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> > Dear Freedos users,
> >
> > i recently installed a base installation of FreeDOS 1.3 RC5 using the
> > FullUSB edition. After that i tried to install the Watcom compiler
> > with fdimples.
>
> How did you
