H !
How about making 2 partitions on the drive and use xfdisk to make the
partitions whitch have a boot manager that hide and shows desired
partition ? Install Freedos and xfdisk on the first and then hide it
and instal windows on the second.
Den 2022-02-11 kl. 09:40, skrev Eric Auer:
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 :-)
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