Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot winth Windows 98

2022-02-12 Thread Björn Morell
Yes, when booting to Freedos (or DrDos) it wll be C: and my W95 will be D: and a logical partiton E: booting to W95 it will be C: and freedos/drdos will be D: and te logical E: booting to linux it will be on hd1 (swap on hda2 and backup on hda3) and freedos on hb1 and drdos on hb2 and w95 on h

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot winth Windows 98

2022-02-12 Thread Bret Johnson
>> The problem with this approach is that the programs are almost >> never on C:, and they may not be on D: either. The way I manage >> that is to set myself up an S: ("System") drive which is where the >> programs are located. I use whatever tools I have available in the >> DOS I'm using to do t

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot winth Windows 98

2022-02-12 Thread Liam Proven
On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 at 01:52, Travis Siegel wrote: > > Not true. Sometimes true. > If both of the partitions are primary partitions, and the bootable flag is > swapped from one to the other, then when one boots, the second will be drive > d:, and vice versa. It depends on the OSes in use. Th

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot winth Windows 98

2022-02-12 Thread Björn Morell
Hmm.  I have two  primary partitions, Freedos and DrDos on a drive and only the active one is visible.  I have 3 drives, first one has Damn Small Linux and LILO as boot manager second has Freedos and Drdos and the third Windows 95 (with Lite Step shell). In DSL I can mount them all, bootin