Hi Thomas,
> A dual boot Windows+FreeDos would be absolutely my preferred system... Can your Windows version resize itself? Can it create a FAT partition for DOS in some other way? Then I think you should do that, maybe already copy the contents of the DOS install disk there and boot the DOS installer. In the installer, you can now skip the step of partitioning and formatting the harddisk and just tell it to use the FAT partition as install target. If your Windows itself uses NTFS partitions, the FAT partition will be the only one visible to DOS and it will be used as C: by DOS after install. It might have another drive letter during install if C: is already used by the install CD or USB stick, of course. Obviously, you should only use a Windows version of which you have a license. If that is not the case, it probably is not worth the effort to install ANY Windows at all. You can just dual-boot with DOS and Linux then and let your Windows apps run in Wine on Linux. If you want a dual-boot system with Windows and Linux, the same strategy as above should work: Use Linux to resize itself, or maybe easier, tell it to create a FAT partition for DOS already while you install Linux. Then boot the DOS install disk (CD, DVD or USB stick) and tell the installer to use that FAT parttiion, without FDISK changing partitions and without formatting. I have no idea what XP embedded can do or cannot do, but when in doubt, it probably can do a lot less than Linux, because it sounds like a stripped-down version of XP and XP is very old. Regards, Eric PS: The FAT partition for DOS should be a LBA partition and it must be a primary (not extended / logical) partition, because it is complicated to configure DOS to boot properly otherwise. You need to keep that in mind when making / resizing partitions, but it should be quite feasible with GPARTED in Linux or maybe with built-in or 3rd party tools of more modern Windows versions. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
