Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 09:46:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Paul O. Bartlett" To: OpenDOS List Subject: Re: Dcoumentation for DR-DOS? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-PGP-keyid: 0xF383C8F9 X-PGP-fingerprint: E62D2E2C7BCD08CB B742A93726A91532 Organization: SmartNet Private Account MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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. -- Paul mailto:bartlett AT smart DOT net .......................................................... Paul O. Bartlett, P.O. Box 857, Vienna, VA 22183-0857, USA Keyserver (0xF383C8F9) or WWW for PGP public key Home Page: http://www.smart.net/~bartlett