Hi!
Using only one HD, is this possible or can cause some conflit?
It is possible, but not easy to install. Both Win98 and FreeDOS can use the same FAT32 C: drive, so you need a boot sector side boot menu such as my "metakern". You can also use a MBR style boot menu which alternately hides one of two FAT partitions, but I have no experience with that. To install, you first have to install Windows 98. Then you need a tool to make a copy of the Windows boot sector and store that as a file. I think you can use options of our SYS tool to achieve that. Also make a backup of your config.sys, then install FreeDOS. Metakern is then used together with the backup of your Windows boot sector to create a "kernel" file and you use FreeDOS SYS to change the boot sector of your C: drive to one which loads that "meta-kernel". Booting C: will now open a menu where you can either continue to boot FreeDOS or switch to booting Windows. You have to use FDCONFIG.SYS for FreeDOS (if it finds one, it will use that instead of CONFIG.SYS, so the latter stays free for Win98: If the FreeDOS installer has overwritten the Windows config, you can rename the FreeDOS config and copy back your backup of the Windows config). Also, your FDCONFIG.SYS SHELL line has to say that you want to use FreeDOS FreeCOM instead of command.com of Win98 with a FreeDOS batch file other than AUTOEXEC.BAT, so you can keep the latter free for Win98 use. If anything goes wrong, simply use our SYS to copy your backup of the Win98 boot sector over the C: boot sector, so you remove the menu and boot directly into Win98 again. As mentioned, make sure to backup your config.sys, autoexec.bat, command.com and boot sector BEFORE you install FreeDOS. So in case any of them gets overwritten, you can rename the FreeDOS version and copy back the Windows version. Regards, Eric PS: Metakern can aloso offer to continue booting into WinNT/XP/... or Linux primary partitions if it detects those in the MBR. Patching the FreeDOS boot sector in RAM, it should be able to work from any partition where FreeDOS works, but SYS may have started to show some incompatibilities at any time since 2003. Use at your own risk :-) _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user