Hi Eric ;-) > I'd like to put FreeDOS on HDB1, > but wanted to know if that was possible.
Yes but this will change the drive letters for the other FAT partitions on HDB, I guess. Unless you ask Grub / ... to hide the DOS partition before it boots Windows. > boot using a DOS bootable floppy, HDA1 shows up as C:, HDB8 shows > up as D:. If I install FreeDOS, will it be able to use C:? Yes but HDB8 will become E: and booting from HDB1 might mean that drive letters will be different anyway? It might call HDB1 C: then, HDB8 D: or E:, and HDA1 D: or E:...? > Also, will FreeDOS mess up my drive lettering in XP? I think in XP you can tell which drive letters are where, to make a fixed setup instead of the automatic numbering which would indeed change when you make HDB1 a FAT disk. Or, as said, you can tell Grub to dynamically hide DOS. The NTFS drives of XP (those called C: and D: by XP) will keep their drive letters anyway afair :-). Note that DOS will not give the NTFS drives a drive letter at all. > FreeDOS with Grub, so I think I should be OK. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user