I am no longer an experienced DOS user. I am relearning. And only understood half of what you said. Guess I have gotten old and lazy. and even back in the day I just went right to windows, to work in VB 3. I think 95 came out a year after I really got my start.
Plus I really want them to be separate. I wish I knew how to do grub better but that xFDisk seems like it would do the trick. I have GParted and could use that to do all the Partitioning and hiding but I don't see that it has a way to install and setup grub, Unless someone says there are issues with xFDisk I'll try that. Worst thing that could happen is that I have to start over again. Adam On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 4:07 PM Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > 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... > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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