Hi Moises,You most likely need to add a 2nd Hard-Disk if you
must boot from DOS as it can't load from any other
drive/partition than C:, provided you can swap the
units with help from the CMOS SetUp utility; this
way, DOS and XP will both become available but not
simultaneously. In a fresh setup, i'd install DOS
on drive C: then XP on another partition - i think
Boot.INI can be hand-edited to add DOS to the boot
menu (which is more practical)... There's a third
option though: VMWare and Virtual Machines alike.
The problem with a Windows XP/2K/NT console box is
about peripheral I/O deprivation, an issue you can
fix thru VMWare, etc., because DOS is given access
to some Video card, Serial/Parallel Ports, NetWork
Interface Card, Sound Card and MoDem/WinMoDem: it
leaves control to Windows but creates fake devices
which DOS can use as in the good old days and with
the benefit of having the Windows resources handy.
Being a Windows application, i believe it might be
judged improper to discuss VMWare or else here but
once you're set i don't see a reason why the setup
of synthetic devices should be declared prohibited
as it looks and feels quite like "the real thing".
It's easy enough to install such an emulator and a
DOS install is done using the same diskettes you'd
feed to a virgin PC. One word of caution: VMWare
is safer if DOS can have its own partition instead
of the image-file which is useless once corrupted.
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Salutations,Michel Samson
a/s Bicéphale
