Mail Archives: opendos/2000/09/03/09:50:09
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Charles Dye wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Paul O. Bartlett wrote:
>
> > Also, has anyone actually installed and used DR-DOS with dual
> > booting in a different partition on a HD with Windows *98* (not 95, not
> > NT, not 2000)?
>
> I dual-boot between Win98 and DR DOS on my home system, using the
> LOADER.COM from DR DOS 7.03. Boot files for both operating systems
> reside on my C: drive, but the bulk of Windows 98 lives in E:\WINDOWS
> (a FAT32 volume.)
>
> [remainder snipped for space]
Thanks very much for the response. As for using DR-DOS 7.03, I
have had some response that 7.03 is buggy and 7.02 is better.
Anyway, my main concern is not to mess up what I already have on my
C: drive, which is the only physical hard disk I have on my system. Not
having all the documentation yet, I am supposing so far that first I
would have to defragment the drive using something like the 'doze
defragmenter to make sure that things are compacted. Then I would use
something like Partition Magic (which I have not acquired yet) to
create a new partition, which I suppose would be D:. (Presumably this
would bump my Zip and CD drives down to E: and F:. They are now D: and
E:.) I want to *keep* my current 'doze system, which is why I would
think that I need to use something like Partition Magic rather than
FDISK to create a FAT16 partition.
After creating the partition for DR-DOS, do I need to format it
ahead of time before installing DR-DOS? I would think so. I
downloaded DR-DOS 7.02 and expanded it into a strictly 8.3 directory
tree (C:\drdos) under 'doze. Could I then reboot into MS-DOS mode and
use C:\drdos\format.com to format the new partition for DR-DOS? And,
that done, could I install DR-DOS from C:\drdos?
Certainly, before I do anything I am going to try to get ahold of
more documentation. I am very grateful for all the responses I have
had on this list, but that is no excuse for RTFM. :-) There is a large
Dosbook.ex_ file in the directory, but I think that it has to be
manipulated first before it is readable.
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