Hi!
You could try metakern: FreeDOS SYS has command line options to write
the boot sector to a file instead of to the boot sector. You can use
either DEBUG or Linux or simple or fancy DOS tools of your choice to
harvest the boot sectors of MS DOS and XP. If FreeDOS finds the file
fdconfig.sys, it will use that and ignore config.sys, so you can tell
FreeDOS to use a different command.com than MS DOS in the SHELL line,
which you can also use to tell our freecom shell to use a different
file instead of autoexec.bat :-)
In short, you can use metakern as a boot menu to install FreeDOS and
MS DOS on the SAME C: drive, both visible to each other. Of course
it will take a bit of copying files around and making backups before
one installer overwrites files of the other DOS, but as experienced
DOS user, you can do it :-)
You can also add XP to the equation if you manage to keep config
files separate, but it is probably easier to install XP to a NTFS
partition which both DOS versions will simply ignore. You can use
for example your Linux boot manager to boot either Linux or XP or
the DOS partition and then use metakern to boot either FreeDOS or
MS DOS.
Or even easier: Copy the harvested boot sectors of both MS DOS and
FreeDOS to your Linux boot manager directory and manually add boot
menu items for the two DOS versions directly to your Linux boot menu
without using metakern.
Regards, Eric
I and trying to get a multiboot setup
1. MSDOS 6.22 + Win 3.11
2. FreeDos 1.3
3. I was going to do XP but annoying so no...
4. And a Older laptop friendly Linux that runs on XFCE...
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