Okay, I have an IBM Aptiva with Windows 98 SE on drive C and I was able to partition the drive (520 MB, FAT 16) so I could install Dos 6.22 / WFW 3.11 on it's own drive letter. The thing is that when I run the Dos installation disk all it wants to do it reformat and install on drive C. What do I do to get it to install on drive D? Thanks a mill.

-Kimi

MS-DOS will only install to Drive C:\ Its just a thing you have to live with!

Hi Kimi:
If you want to run multiple OSs, then I would say to look into using System Commander or some other utility for switching OSs.

Good luck.
Z

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Why are you trying to put Dos on that type of machine at all? Just stick with Win 98.

you can dual boot 98 and DOS w/o 3rd party software, but you'll have to have a fat16 primary partition on your primary hdd.

You can only dual boot Windows 98/98se if BOTH MS-DOS & Windows are on the SAME FAT16 partition! If its a FAT32 drive then MS-DOS 6.22 will not install. You want it any other way then you have to use a OS Switcher.

P.S. I have heard of a patch that will allow Win98 to run Windows 3.1 - But when it comes to dual booting its MS-DOS 6.22 that is the limiting factor!

Using LILO (LInux LOader) and Linux's FDISK,
I have Linux, Widows 95, and MS-DOS 6.22 all
triple booting.

Let me get this straight. You have one 520MB
harddrive, with two FAT16 partitions. One
for Windows 98, and one for MS-DOS.
If thats the case, I believe that using DOS'
fdisk, you can simply switch the active
partition. The active partition will appear
as drive C. Switch the active partition,
install dos, then switch it back. As for
booting,..., I use LILO.

I'm going to reboot into DOS and see if the
active partition trick works, or if I just
dreamed it up. (I think it works)

You can get DOS 6.22 install w/o a full hard drive format if you make an unformatted partition first (I think it has to be a primary). DOS 6.22 should ignore the FAT32 partition and just format the empty one. BUT BACKUP FIRST!! I actually learned this the hard way.