My C drive is NTFS and already has WIN XP installed. My F drive is FAT32. Right now I want to install DOS on the F drive, then use the method provided in the article “How to boot pure DOS under WinNT/2K/XP” to make a dual boot. Will that work? If not, what should I do?
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Is your F drive an extended partition?
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The F drive is an extended partition. Someone said the C drive must be a FAT32 partition, is that true? I want to make this work without changing the C drive from NTFS. Is that possible?
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It seems DOS can't be installed on an extended partition.
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DOS cannot be installed on an NT partition, and early systems also had to boot from a primary partition...
So, carve out a bit of your primary partition, 200m maybe, which is already quite large for DOS...
Then use spfdisk to create it as a primary partition, and install spfdisk's boot manager... then you can install an independent DOS...
So, carve out a bit of your primary partition, 200m maybe, which is already quite large for DOS...
Then use spfdisk to create it as a primary partition, and install spfdisk's boot manager... then you can install an independent DOS...
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Be careful when doing this...
I don't recommend installing DOS like that.
If you really want to learn DOS, you can first install DOS in a virtual machine and learn that way. It's safe and fast.
Virtual machines: vpc or vmware. You can find them online. And there are Chinese tutorials too; Chinese-localized versions usually include them.
That way, you don't need to repartition anything, and you don't need to switch operating systems either. You can use it completely within winxp...
I don't recommend installing DOS like that.
If you really want to learn DOS, you can first install DOS in a virtual machine and learn that way. It's safe and fast.
Virtual machines: vpc or vmware. You can find them online. And there are Chinese tutorials too; Chinese-localized versions usually include them.
That way, you don't need to repartition anything, and you don't need to switch operating systems either. You can use it completely within winxp...
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Yeah, I agree with the poster above.
And if you need to reboot frequently, it's very convenient too.
And if you need to reboot frequently, it's very convenient too.
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But the vmware trial version only lasts one month. Is there any virtual machine that isn't a trial version???
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Use vpc...
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VMWare 4.0.1 build 5289 tested OK
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Can you tell me how to use VMware?
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I'd really like to have a complete and systematic DOS learning e-book!
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