Vishal Gupta 4 Report post Posted February 15, 2005 (edited) Guys! I want to know how to install only DOS on a separate drive, if i hv Win XP & Linux installed on my PC. I mean I hv Win XP in C: Drive and Linux installed. Now I want to install DOS on D: Drive. I know that its possible, but i don't know How??? Can anyone pls tell me whole procedure & Files to d/l ? thnx in advance! Edited April 5, 2005 by Vishal Gupta Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deepu 0 Report post Posted February 15, 2005 One way to run multiple OSs on a PC is to install them in a multi-boot scenario. But, this way you cannot run them simultaneously, and rebooting to switch between OSs is a hassle. Instead its better to use some emulating s/w. QEMU is one such s/w. you can get from http://www.freeoszoo.org/ The advantage is that you can run DOS in a window and never needs to reboot to switch between OS. You can also try microsoft's Virtual PC 2004 too... Infact I have some softwares which I use regularly...Unfortunately they will not run in WIndows XP.. I used to dual boot until I stumbled upon Microsoft's Virtual PC 2004. Now I am running WIndows 95 in a virtual PC environment.. Of course you will need a decently powered machine and some amount of memory to get good performance... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dacodecz 0 Report post Posted February 15, 2005 Guys!I want to know how to install only DOS on a separate drive, if i hv Win XP & Linux installed on my PC. I mean I hv Win XP in C: Drive and Linux installed. Now I want to install DOS on D: Drive. I know that its possible, but i don't know How??? Can anyone pls tell me whole procedure & Files to d/l ? thnx in advance! 26650[/snapback] Dear vishal, Well if you wanna install dos to separate drive than theres not too much of problem, just follow some partition restrictions what dos needs, and add an entry of it in your bootloader like lilo or grub in linux. But if you want to install the dos on the separate partition of the same drive, then remember dos can only exist on the primary partition, and your partition size cant be more than 2GB. You can even try emulator as dosemu/bochs/vmware to get into dos w/o putting it into separate drive/partition. But I guess you want to have the dos because some legacy apps you wanna run or you wanna poke with some hardware w/o fiddling with any abstraction layer, in that case emulator based solution will not be sufficient. BTW can you be more specific about your requirements, that way you can have more personalized solution. Cheers........ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
linuxguy 0 Report post Posted February 15, 2005 You can use DOS BOX to run most DOS programs. Anyway, if you still want to multiboot using DOS then GRUB can do it for you. Unplug your other drives and install DOS on your new drive. Then edit grub to boot that drive like this: rootnoverify (hdX,0) makeactive chainloader +1 where hdX is the DOS drive. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vishal Gupta 4 Report post Posted February 15, 2005 I only want that Either Linux Boot loader (LILO or GRUB) or Windows XP Boot loader show an extra entry to boot into DOS, like we boot into Win 98 (Restart in DOS mode). SIMPLE!!! I want this cauz if i hv to replace any system file which i can't replace while windows is running or I hv to format my C: drive, on which Win XP is installed and other many reason, then i hv to boot into DOS using bootable CD or floppy. SO it'll be very nice if i can boot into DOS mode like win98 provide. Thats it! So pls tell me how can i install DOS on my D: drive? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deepu 0 Report post Posted February 16, 2005 I want this cauz if i hv to replace any system file which i can't replace while windows is running or I hv to format my C: drive, on which Win XP is installed and other many reason, then i hv to boot into DOS using bootable CD or floppy. I think for this requirement its better to have Windows PE based CD in your hand.... It is a knoppix like Windows XP live distro and will allow you to do all these... The best part is that you can do lots of system maintainance activities using this which you cannot do in DOS... I have seen some torrents around on the internet of Windows PE... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jusmail 0 Report post Posted February 16, 2005 I haven't tried this yet but it looks great! Apparently Microsoft released DOS to the public domain and someone "fixed" it. For those of you that wish DOS wasn't dead, look at: http://newdos.yginfo.net/msdos71/. Here's what MS-DOS 7.1 reportedly does: What's new in MS-DOS 7.10 since MS-DOS 6.x? There are many enhancements, new features and bugfixes in MS-DOS 7.10 since MS-DOS 6.x. For example: * FAT32 and FAT32X drives support (*very* important nowadays) * Extended FAT16 (a.k.a. FAT16X, type 0E, usually being the primary partition) drives support * Large hard disk and LBA ExtendedX (Int 13x) partition (type 0F) support (*very* important nowadays) * Long File Names (LFN) support * Full Y2K (Year 2000) compliant and supports 4-digit years (e.g. DIR /4) * Large memory (>64MB) and XXMS 3.0 support * Euro sign support (Code Page 850, Right Alt+5) * The protection that keeps the stability of DOS * Efficient use of UMB memory (The DOS kernel and COMMAND.COM are loaded high automatically) * Extended commands in CONFIG.SYS to use UMB memory, such as FILESHIGH, BUFFERSHIGH * Environments variables can be used in the DOS command line directly, e.g. ECHO %PATH% * The maximum length for path variable is expanded * Some new commands added, such as ACCDATE, LOGO(in CONFIG.SYS) * Volume LOCK/UNLOCK feature added to protect data and LFN on the (hard) disks * EDIT can be used to edit both text and binary files and multiple files * REN can rename a directory as well as files * The locations of DOS system files (especially IO.SYS) are much more flexible * Dual-boot with older versions of MS-DOS (e.g. DOS 6.x) feature added * Animated startup logo support by using a custom LOGO.SYS file * You can decide whether to execute a command using Enter/ESC key now while using the step-by-step feature * Support for loading Win9x GUI (including all versions from Win95/95A to Win98SE GUI) on top added * Many undocumented but useful options and switches added, such as COMMAND /Z * Updated and newer versions of DOS commands and tools included, such as MORE, MSCDEX, MSD * And many more... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deepu 0 Report post Posted February 17, 2005 That was a nice find Jusmail!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
StaticElectricity 8 Report post Posted March 25, 2005 woah jusmail, thats a really fantastic find... ahhhhh yippee DOS is Back./*\ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rbdhoot 11 Report post Posted April 5, 2005 Really Nice Post. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vishal Gupta 4 Report post Posted September 20, 2005 Now the link given by jusmail is not working nemore. Interested members can d/l it from this new link: MS-DOS 7.10 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ashoksoft 83 Report post Posted September 20, 2005 tnx mate vishaal bhai cheers Ashok Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deepu 0 Report post Posted September 20, 2005 Thanks Vishal!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vishal Gupta 4 Report post Posted September 20, 2005 U all r welcome... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RajanPERT 0 Report post Posted September 20, 2005 I will give u thanks again, and also give u a new name Researcher and Seracher. What i say!!!!!! GREAT! Thanks and Take Care! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
