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I am trying to install ms dos on my d:\ drive. I made a startup disk, booted from it, sys'ed the disk drive d:\, copyied the rest of the dos tools to it and set it active. now it says "invalid startup disk"
How did you format the d drive? Why did you do that anyway. Win98 is based on MSDos anyway. What version of Dos did you apply?
How large is the partition?
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the partition is 231 mb, i did this to install win3.1 on drive d: using msdos 7.x. it is formated fat using the program format.com
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You have two hard drives? Normally C: will be active and fdisk won't allow you to set a second partition active. What's on your C: drive? It'd be helpful if you provided more background info.
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I only have one hardrive but fdisk does let me make d:\ active and if win 3.1 runs or not does not matter right now. I can't even get into dos. I also tried xosl bootmanager.
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You have only one harddrive? I assume you have more than one partition on that drive. You might be better off partitioning with two or three primary partitions as opposed to using extended and logical drives.
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It did not work no matter what i did. I am going to settle for a boot disk every time i want to boot to win3.1
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If you use a third party boot loader or possibly even windows boot loader you should be able to boot without a boot disk. You need a separate very small partition for the boot loader, which becomes the active partition.
BTW did you format using the /s switch to mark the disk as a system disk? I don't think dos can be installed to a logical drive.
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Boy; I tried that on my laptop a few years ago. Had finally to go to System Commander. For the computer flat did not know what drive to boot into from cold.
Wm.
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win3x is dos 6x (or slightly earlier) based; and is also fat-16 format (max partition size = 2Gig). It won't happily sit on dos7x...
Also the actual boot/start-up files for a dos based OS (any flavour) have to be on the first physical drive (and that too is physically first on the that drive), in the active Primary. And for win3x the system files (the OS itself) also have to be in that Primary partition; whereas for '9x etc. they can be elsewhere - within certain defined limits...
The usual way to have win3x and win-9x dual-boot is (was) via an add-in boot-util...
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There is a 3XPatch to enable W3.x to use the WinDOS7.xx as its base.....
But yes a Boot Manager should suffice XOSL should be able to handle this scenario.
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"...There is a 3XPatch to enable W3.x to use the WinDOS7.xx as its base........"
WebsWonder: ta for that snippet; not sumfink I knewed before...
trvlr
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