Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos and 98 dual boot.

[Michael R. <mic...@fr...>]

The dual booting thing shouldn't be hard. Perhaps you do it a lot more
complicated then you need.

Two things you need to confirm:
1) Does FreeDOS work as single as like you want?
2) Does Win98 work as single as like you want?
If you can answer both questions with yes then you are ready for multi
booting.

I am using the bootmanager grub4dos because I personally think it's the
feature rich one. Not because grub can be started from DOS or it's name,
just because it's an enhanced grub 1.x and because it can chainload any
DOS/9x/NT directly (loading kernel.sys, msdos.sys, winboot.sys,
ntldr.....). But any other bootmanager can also work.

FreeDOS supports FAT32 and Win98 should also (to long ago to remember
but not hard to find) so this could be the file system of your choice.
grub4dos inside MBR and just a single primary partition needed, sure you
can adjust this like you want.

About installing FreeDOS.... The installer does basically no magic. He
copys all and writes bootsector. You can also manually copy it to your
harddisk and chainload later kernel.sys with grub4dos. Then you can let
either grub4dos or win98 bootmanager in mbr (and chainload grub4dos).
The only important thing is that win9x can not boot with kernel.sys, but
only with it's own DOS kernel.sys equivalent.

-mr

kurt godel schrieb:
> Eric, I already tried your last two suggestions with these results: if I
> installed the w98 first, then when I
> installed the fdbase over it, only the FreeDos would boot from a turn on
> after that; I thought to activate
> the w98 from the command line(from FreeDos) but could not see how to do it.
> Then, I installed the FreeDos
> first, and the w98 refused to begin to load with the message "stop! windows
> needs at least 16 Mb of ram".
> whereupon I clicked ok, and got kicked right back to freedos. If I
> understood the first comments I use the
> fdbase installer to put FreeDos into 'd', copy fdconfig.sys to the 'c'
> drive, where I installed the w98; I then
> erase fdconfig.sys from 'd' drive? Then I tinker with the fdconfig to rename
> the actual drive letter of the cd,
> (I didn't think of that when the letters got bumped by the new partitions)
> say thats what you said!?-kurt
> <wb...@gm...>.
> 
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