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Please help installing DOS
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Name: lito
Date: October 24, 2001 at 19:30:01 Pacific
Subject: Please help installing DOS
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Comment: I'm going to create a FAT16 partition, how do i install DOS in it ?, i do i acces the partition ? , I'm unsing now Linux and Windows 98, booting with LILO , im going to create a separate partition,
or there is someway i could install also DOS, in the Windows 98 partition ??
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Response Number 1
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Name: Srinath
Date: October 25, 2001 at 04:06:35 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Hey Hey Hold on a sec will you! You're just rushing it through! Wait up! You're trying to tell me that you've been using LINUX & WIN98 together & you still don't know how to work around with partitions & installing os'es! I don't believe this!! Anyway whatz your motive! Why do you want so many os'es installed? Decide on one thatz best for you & your hardware! i can help you with that if you want!! As for your question I strongly suggest NOT installing dos & win98 on the same partition. The consequences could be disastrous! Do mail me if you can! I can try & help you.
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Response Number 2
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Name: Hans Paulsen
Date: October 25, 2001 at 05:13:27 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Dos will only install on a formatted drive with fat16 (fat) so make a backup of all partitions with ghost or Drive image before attemting this.In any case,you MUST have at least 2 drives with at least 1 gb each.
1.TIP:Buy a drawer for your harddrive and fysicaly take out the drive 2 with dos+98
or drive 1 with 98+linux.
2.Make a fat (16) partitions with fdisk making one 500 mb disk and one with the rest of space.
install dos on drive 2 partition 1 (C).
after installing dos and win311 (?).
put in a 98 boot diskett and make a fat 32 partition of the rest. f.x.: you have a disk at 2 gig.
Make in dos a primary partition of 500 mb.(C)
format C after restart.
install dos.
restart using win 98 bootdisk.
start fdisk with big disk support and make a secondary partition and logicaly part. of 1500 mb.
format D. install 98 on d. When booting hit F8 and use former os.in msdos. Mail me if problems.
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Response Number 3
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Name: lito
Date: October 25, 2001 at 13:45:17 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Ok, this is what i have so far...
i made a 300 mb FAT16 partition, with partition magic,
So yep , my hard drive is like this:
a Windows partition, /dev/hda1
my extended partition of linux, the swap space is /dev/hda6 .
And my new small fat16 partition, is /dev/hda7
Ok so i added DOS, /dev/hda7 to LILO . yep
ok im my dos partition i have a 'dos' directory, with all the installation files of MS-DOS 6.22 . So yep what i want to do is install DOS in /dev/hda7 , in windows is the letter d: . ok, so i use the win98 boot disk, yep, i go to D: and type install , and it says i need to restart with the disk 1 MSDOS , i would do this but i have no idea wich files go in disk 1 ,2 and 3 . i just have i the files in the directory.
So i tried this... i copied all the files from d:\dos\ to d:\ . And then i tried to boot from lilo, my d: partition, wich is /dev/hda7 in linux . OK, nothing happened when i tried to boot with lilo.
ANy help , how to isntall dos in my d: partition ?
Or maybe i could just create the 3 disk, but i have no idea wich files go on them.
ok thanks
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Name: fred6008
Date: October 25, 2001 at 20:24:06 Pacific
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Reply: (edit) I have never run three bootable partitions, so this is a guess.
You need to SYS the fat16 drive (SYS D: or SYS E:) with the DOS version you are going to use on it. Then, you make a DOS directory on the drive and copy the DOS files into it. Now you put an option to select it on your LILO boot manager and boot to it.
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