Hi someone, Grant, there is no need to use separate partitions or even harddisks for Win9x/Me and FreeDOS. The trick is that both use FAT and both use the same drive letters, but Win9x/Me and FreeDOS use different file names for kernel and config. FreeDOS looks at fdconfig dot sys first, and only if none is found, it uses config dot sys. Via the SHELL line there, you can tell each OS which command.com and which autoexec file it has to use :-). If you combine those things, all you need is a boot menu which loads either the Win9x/Me or the FreeDOS kernel. This can be done for example with MetaKern, which needs the boot sectors of both OSes as "configuration". Installation is a bit tricky but it is scriptable... Actually FreeDOS tries to auto- matically install MetaKern when it detects that it has to share C: with another OS, but the detection might sometimes fail.
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