I'm back! And I got some great news!
After obtaining an OEM copy of Windows XP Professional SP3 from eBay for
the low-low price of $99.95 ( *awkward smile* ), I got around to installing
XP today. I decided to try Boot US, and man, that is the simplest boot
manager installer I have ever seen (then again, I have ever only tried to
install two boot managers in my life, Boot US being the second :) ). Just
downloaded the Boot US x86 installer from their website, installed it under
XP, set up the boot manager on the MBR, and blam!, I can boot into Win98
and XP!
Here's some proof (proof that fills me with glee!):
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4606/40243797792_4bcd9b5d2b_c.jpg
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 1:21 AM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 6:21 PM, Kyle Nied <nied.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > BOOTMGR looks like a good candidate, Rugxulo. Boot US seems good too...
> I'll
> > have to think about it more.
> >
> > I'm putting this project on a very temporary hold, though. I'll work on
> it
> > some more after a few days.
>
> No pressure, just feel free to keep us updated on your achievements.
>
> > Thankfully, Jan, real DOS would not be a problem, given I have all three
> > MSDOS 6.22 installation floppy images on my USB flash drive that I store
> > floppy images on and of course Win98 bootdisks on there as well, if
> needed.
>
> Just to plug my own wimpy work:
>
> * https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/
> distributions/unofficial/metados/
>
> It's not much, but it's meant to be fairly minimal as a starting point
> for further expansion. It does fit on 1.44 MB 3.5" floppy (although
> only uses half) by default, to keep it simple.
>
> Besides kernel and shell, it does have FDISK, FORMAT, SYS, BOOTMGR,
> and a few other random tools (HIMEMX, CWSDPMI, CTMOUSE, UNZIP, etc
> etc). In theory, that should help you do a minimal install or at least
> simple tests.
>
> Floppies aren't super common anymore, and the few here that still use
> them seem to not have much interest in complaining or maintaining, so
> we don't have a lot of "good" floppy images online anymore (except
> messy old ones from like ten years ago, e.g. Joris, Balder, Odin, my
> own BARE_DOS or RUFFIDEA, and a very few others that I can't
> remember).
>
> Just for completeness, here's Jerome's FD 1.2 floppy image (but IIRC
> that usually presumes CD for installing packages):
>
> * https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/
> distributions/1.2/FD12FLOPPY.zip
>
> And here's Mateusz's Svarog86:
>
> * http://svarog86.sourceforge.net/
>
> Or his Svarog386 boot image:
>
> * http://svarog386.viste.fr/boot.img
>
> (I always feel like I'm missing something. There's always more to
> support, more to rebuild, more to test. I guess it's impossible to do
> everything.)
>
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