Hi, > I have a hard disk partioned c:,d:,...... > Want to run a multiboot system with freedos on c:, XP > on d:, and then LINUX desktop, as well as the external drives.
> My system is P4 XP PRO 2GB ram,148 GB disk,160GB usb disk. > I have the ISO files of the freedos site on hard disk. > Would like to know specifics of getting Freedos, XP, Linux > system going, currently no Freedos on sys. So you already have XP and Linux on harddisk... In that case, you probably have XP on NTFS and your Linux already has a boot menu. DOS cannot use NTFS, so if you have one NTFS and one FAT partition, DOS will only see the FAT partition and call that one C: (there are tools like NTFS4DOS if you want to access files on NTFS later). Drive letters in XP are more or less arbitrary. If all that is the case, just make sure that after you boot DOS, your XP drive is not C: but either D: or invisible, and then install DOS to C:. Next you can tell your Linux to add a boot menu item for DOS. If you cannot find an easy way to do this via a menu, then you should search the web for information how to edit GRUB menu.lst or LILO lilo.conf to make a DOS menu item. The topic has been mentioned on this mailing list, too, so look at our archives :-). Eric PS: You either have to boot a real CD or DVD from the ISO or have to use some special tools like sys-freedos-linux, you cannot "run" the installation from inside XP. You can unzip the files on the CD into a FDOS directory, but you have to boot from CD/DVD or use special tools to install a -bootable- DOS on your harddisk. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
