You can install FreeDOS on a new computer and have it dual-boot
with Windows XP as well. This doesn't harm the WindowsXP
installation at all and doesn't require re-installing
WindowsXP. You just put FreeDOS on a trivial amount
of disk space at the end of the drive.
I worked out a detailed procedure for doing this and would
welcome comments. It uses free tools that the Linux guys
use for dual booting.
See www.k1ea.com/hints
Dual-boot "Real" DOS on Windows XP
for a detailed procedure, though a bit MSDOS centric. The
keys are shrinking the NTFS partition to make room for
DOS, formatting a FAT32 partition, and configuring the
dual boot.
Mark
Johnson Lam wrote:
On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 14:06:29 +0100, you wrote:
Hi Gerry,
I'd been building and testing PCs using Dos622 with MSCLIENT 3.0, but
kept runing into limitations, conflicts and lack of memory. I tried
Win95 and Win98 boot disks instead, but things got even worse. A brand
new server had >4Gb of memory and Win98's HIMEM and EMM386 didn't like
this at all. The USB memory sticks also conflicted with EMM386.
Exactly same as my problem before using FreeDOS.
I extracted the boot sector from there, and copied the kernel, made my
own FDCONFIG.SYS and suddenly it's working. I then got hold of the most
hacked together alpha, beta, CVS or whatever files I could find together
with UMBPCI and made a new build.
The best way to start FreeDOS should be boot from "ODIN" (a one-disk
only distribution of FreeDOS), and then install the FreeDOS into hard
disk ... you can refer to my homepage:
http://johnson.tmfc.net/freedos
I've now tested this on a range of modern hardware including dual XEON
servers with BIOS controlled RAID, AMD with RAID DOS driver, Intel with
BIOS controlled SATA, booting from USB memory sticks and building over
the network.
Good, thanks for your effort, please feel free express any feelings to
the mailing list, I'm interest to your story and experience.
The result is incredible. I have tons of spare conventional memory, all
my real-mode apps now run properly, and everything is faster than
before. The other nice thing is that many of the FreeDOS facilities are
designed to work with the newer hardware as well as the old.
This is a fantastic operating system.
Please help introducing FreeDOS to others!
Rgds,
Johnson.
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