For the purpose of playing ancient games, i was going to use the dosbox emulator but was told that it runs a bit hard. So, i then decided that it might be better to partition my hd and make a separate ms dos system. However, i dont have a clue how i would install this system or even use it, especially since i dont have a floppy drive. If there is any advice or ideas you have, please tell me. Would dosbox run alright? Could i even install ms-dos? Are there any alternatives? thanks for your help! 0111000011011110110111101110000

MS-DOS6.22 is not free, however IBM's PC-DOS 2000 can be downloaded in an ISO CD Image Format and installed from the created Bootable CD. MS & PC-DOS are very similar, but IMO PC-DOS is the better choice. ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/dos http://www.pldos.pl/pcdos/index.htm First you would need a Boot Loader as **-DOS is by default required to install on the C: partition. Try XOSL http://www.ranish.com/part/xosl.htm M$ Support pages have a good article regarding multi-boot: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306559 DOSBOX can not say, but M$ Virtual PC may be a better choice: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pr...

DOSBox should run fine on your system. I've got it on a 833MHz Dell (Win2K/256MB Ram) and never had any problems. Once you install any OS "above" MS/PC-DOS, it makes it darn near impossible to come back and install it (DOS) later without special partitioning tools or having to manipulate boot sectors/devices...

Alternatively you can install FreeDOS - it comes as an installation cd - no need for a floppy. Download: http://www.freedos.org/freedos/files/