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Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 09:46:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Paul O. Bartlett" <bartlett AT smart DOT net>
To: OpenDOS List <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Dcoumentation for DR-DOS?
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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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