You can do this with any sufficiently-capable boot manager. I used to use V Communications' "System Commander", once upon a time. Don't know if it's still available. Used to be fairly cheap: about $40 (US). There are probably lots of other commercial utilities you can find at a Best Buy or similar place, if he wants something that comes as shrink-wrapped software.
The open source ($0) XOSL does this too, I think. As you mentioned, so does GRUB. -jh On 6/8/07, Alain M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> 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. > > It's easy on Linux, specially with grub. > > The trick is: have two primary partitions, one of them active, none > hidden. There is a command in GRUB to change tha active partition "on > the fly" prior to boot. > > The advantage is that nothing needs to be special, each run in C: and > the other is still available (at the last letter) > > Alain > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
