You should be able to create a bootable CD with your burning software and a boot floppy (or an image of one) - check your documentation.
If you hope to access your hard drive from a DOS session, be aware that old versions of M$-DOS could only read FAT16 partitions, and "Win9x DOS" (aka DOS7.1), while able to read FAT32 (large disks, >2Gb), could not read the NTFS file system often used on NT based Windows such as XP.
Many find it simpler to run 'DOSBox' or other emulator - - or just run the game on your 486
Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. -John Wayne
My 486 doesn't have a CD drive, nor a working mouse. DOSBox is far to slow. But cheers none the less. I've managed to find a way to get games to work now anyway, I noticed there's a Safe VGA Mode startup in XP, that seems to solve all compatability problems :)
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