On Jun 17, 21:38, Jules Richardson wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 20:29, Joe R. wrote:
> > At 09:22 PM 6/16/04 +0100, you wrote:
> > >
> > In that case, you might want to give this a try.
> > <http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/Articles/BootItNG/>.
>
> 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?
The problem of having DOS and Windows coexist. It might be OK with XP,
which certainly coexists happily with earlier versions of Windows; I
don't know if that extends to DOS but I'm sure I'd find out quite
quickly if I tried it :-) If I do I'll let the list know in case it
helps anyone else who needs an environment for retro software/hardware.
> 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.
Yes, it's called a DPDT switch ;-) Or you can just use a boot floppy.
> 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've not seen anything and in fact last time I looked at Linux's
support for non-PC formats, notably anything that started it's sector
numbering at zero as %deity intended, it was sadly lacking (but that
was quite a while ago)
> 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
That's the main reason. I'd use teledisk for disk images, as people
seem to use that much more often.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Thu Jun 17 2004 - 19:15:22 BST