If you have less than 4 operating systems (as it sounds like you do),
you can simply make each partition a primary one, then install the os of
choice in each partition. Then your boot manager will activate the
appropriate primary drive for each os. This means when dos boots, it
will have it's partition be c:, while xp will have it's partition be
it's c: drive, and you won't have to worry about it at all.
Obviously, ntfs won't be recognized by dos by default, though I'm pretty
sure there's drivers to fix that, but linux os types will recognize
those drives for itself, so you can mount those anywhere you like.
When you boot windows xp, the dos drive will be drive d:, and the linux
drives won't be recognized (unless you install specific tools from third
party developers to change that.
Short version is:
just boot each os, and let it handle things as it wishes, you shouldn't
have any conflicts then.
On 12/6/2024 7:11 PM, Ashley Pirrone via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi. I tried searching the mailing list archive for an answer, and looked
extensively on google. I also tried just doing, and messed up a couple XP
installs.
I would like to multi boot FreeDOS with windows XP. When I ran the installer,
and installed FreeDOS to the D: drive, it worked. But then when I booted into
FreeDOS, it was using C: as the system drive. I know it's normal to use C: but
would like to know how to install it to a different drive letter and keep it
that way. It interferes with my Windows XP install.
I have 3 primary partitions, and some extended ones for different operating
systems. Windows and FreeDOS are the only ones which use drive letters so only
ones that conflict.
I want them in their separate primary partitions, and want Windows XP on an
NTFS drive, not FAT32. Is there anyway I can do this?
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