Good morning, all: I have put together a detailed procedure for adding DOS dual-booting to a Windows XP computer without destroying the XP installation. This uses Linux tools, including qtparted (using parted/ntfsresize) to shrink the XP NTFS partition, add a FAT16 or FAT32 partition for DOS, and install MS-DOS or FreeDOS. The document is written more for MS-DOS, but mentions FreeDOS. The intended audience was people using Amateur Radio programs under DOS.
I thought this might be useful for people who want to install FreeDOS on their new computers. You can look at the pdf at http://k1ea.com/hints/DOS%20dual%20boot%20version%201.0.pdf or http://www.trlog.com/DOS_dual_boot_20041207.pdf I would appreciate any suggestions or feedback. I have four computers booting XP, DOS (various variants), and Linux and I never had to re-install XP. The section on actually installing and configuring FreeDOS is weak, but the FreeDOS beta9sr1 installation works if the new DOS partition shows up as C:. It typically will if you are adding this capability to a new computer with XP pre-installed. I would like to improve this and add more information on configuring FreeDOS as well when I get some more time. Mark Bailey ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
