On 2007-06-07, someone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> BTW: Hard drives are cheap these days, consider installing
> Windows 9x and Freedos on separate physical hard drives
> and using a drive tray to switch back and forth at least
> during the setup stage.
It's a laptop, and the hard drive is difficult to get to.
>> My conclusion is that FreeDOS can't easily share a parition
>> with Win9x.
>
> It can, but it doesn't need to, and setup can be a little
> tricky. I don't recommend this.
>
> Install Windows 9x.
>
> Create a Windows boot disk.
>
> Boot 9x in MS-DOS mode and use fips
> to reduce the Windows partition to
> make room for Freedos.
> ** Open an extra 32 megs for XOSL later. **
>
> Reboot.
>
>
> Install Freedos on the second primary
> partition.
Yep, that's what I should have done. The HOWTO sure gave the
imporession that it would automagically share a parition. I'll
probably jsut shrink the FreeDOS FAT partition and dual-boot
Linux.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! ... My pants just went
at on a wild rampage through a
visi.com Long Island Bowling Alley!!
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