On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 20:29, Joe R. wrote:
> At 09:22 PM 6/16/04 +0100, you wrote:
> >
> >I've put off asking about this in view of the discussion about what's
> >on/off topic, but I need some help from Those Who Know These Things.
> >
> >My specific requirement is to put together a PC to run 22DISK, my
> >DOS-only PAL/PROM programmer software, and the like. It will run DOS
> >6.22 in a FAT16 partition (and probably WinXP in another partition
>
>
> In that case, you might want to give this a try.
> <http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/Articles/BootItNG/>. He says that it's
> pretty good. Let me know how it works for you.
I don't recall Pete saying he needed to tweak an existing partition on a
drive though - or is there some other justifcation for using that
software?
I've lost track of what the deal is with mixing DOS with modern versions
of Windows. I'm sure the current versions a few years ago weren't too
happy co-existing on the same drive (probably because both DOS and
Windows of the time made assumptions about them being the sole OS on the
drive. Windows certainly used to stomp all over the MBR which used to
drive me nuts! :-)
Currently I triple-boot the desktop PC between Linux, Windows 2k and DOS
6.22 - but I'm using SCSI disks, so Linux and Windows co-exist on the
larger drive and DOS has a seperate drive all to itself. I just change
the boot SCSI ID in the SCSI BIOS to boot from the DOS drive when I need
to. Not sure if there's an equivalent if you're using IDE drives though.
As an aside, I'm curious as to what (if any) equivalents to 22disk there
are for Linux. Certainly it's probably a more viable platform if you
want to have hardware fitted at strange addresses or outside the scope
of the BIOS than DOS is.
I have no idea what sort of control the kernel headers allow you over
the floppy controller(s) though. Of course you probably have a good
reason for using 22disk - either a) because it's there or b) because you
have images in 22disk's format (which I believe is proprietary and
undocumented, grr!) that you want to restore...
cheers
Jules
Received on Thu Jun 17 2004 - 16:38:14 BST