Hi Puppy users
Has anyone installed MS DOS after installing puppy and what is the best way to do this?
My setup is bionicpup32 8.0 booting from the HDD. I have no other OS although Grub4Dos has the 'empty' boot option to Windows. By empty I mean it doesnt boot to anything.
I have 2 partitions on my boot HDD:
70 GB primary partition, boot flagged, ext3 formatted (this was preceded by an approx 1 MB unallocated space);
5 GB primary partition, ext3 linux swap file. ext3 seemed to work for me.
This is my boot menu:
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# menu.lst produced by grub4dosconfig-v1.9.3
color white/blue black/cyan white/black cyan/black
#splashimage=/splash.xpm
timeout 10
default 0
# Full installed Linux
title BionicPup32 19.03 (sda1/boot)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.gz
title BionicPup32 19.03 (sda1/boot)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.gz
# Windows
# this entry searches Windows on the HDD and boot it up
title Windows\nBoot up Windows if installed
errorcheck off
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /bootmgr
chainloader /bootmgr
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /ntldr
chainloader /ntldr
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /io.sys
chainloader /io.sys
errorcheck on
# Advanced Menu
title Advanced menu
configfile /menu-advanced.lst
commandline
I want to install DOS 6.2 on a 100 MB FAT16 partition (is FAT16 possible now?).
Why DOS? because nostalgia has grabbed me.
What is the best way to do this to avoid any hiccups and given the above, and what modifications, if any, do I need to make to the 'Windows' boot loader?
I have been researching but all the info is about installing puppy AFTER you have DOS etc. I dont want to just go backwards as I suspect it might land me in trouble.
Many thanks!