Re: [Freedos-user] Warningsafter installing FD on a partitioned Drive

[John R. S. <js...@am...>]

On 11/09/2013 10:35 AM, Eric Auer wrote:
> Hi John,
>
>> As usual when I present problems on these mailing lists, the solutions
>> are complex.  Nothings easy!  I also have a tendency to not explain
>> completely.  Usually I'm pretty precise.  I am not running any MS
>> Windows on this computer.  I am running the "DOS 7.10" from Win98 on
>> this computer so I can make use of Fat32, getting more efficiency on a
>> UK MB HD.  I primarily use this computer to connect to a DOS network
> Well your problem is also complex: You want two DOS versions, FreeDOS
> and Win98-DOS, on the same computer. Because they use the same style
> of drive letter "numbering", some extra effort is involved in keeping
> their configuration separate while they both use the same C: drive.
>
> I hope the docs for metakern help you regarding this config trickery.
> Unless of course you simply want to replace Win98 DOS 7.10 by FreeDOS,
> then you do not have to worry about how to keep Win98 DOS bootable...
>
>
>
to clarify, I ran sys c: from a freedos floppy to write over the win98 
OS with freedos.
that is how this all started.
John