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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!jraynard.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing DOS on FreeBSD Drive Date: 7 Jun 1996 01:35:57 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD Box Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4p811t$2ft@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <4p7lkn$6vs@tribune.usask.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jraynard.demon.co.uk In article <4p7lkn$6vs@tribune.usask.ca>, Scott Arthur Muma <sam136@alf.usask.ca> wrote: >I know this borders on blasphemy, but is it possible to install DOS on a >drive containing FreeBSD. We have partitioned or drive into two halves >when we installed FreeBSD. Is it easy or possible to install DOS into >the second partition or does it need to be at the start of the disk? I >know the documentation says how to do it the other way around, but it's >too late for that. Thanks in advance Shouldn't be any problem, provided the whole of the DOS partition is below the BIOS limit of 512MB (or thereabouts). Oh, and make sure you format the DOS partition before running the DOS install program, as it has a nasty habit of formatting the entire disk if it can't find one, without even asking your permission first. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland | http://freefall.freebsd.org/~jraynard/ james@jraynard.demon.co.uk | jraynard@freebsd.org