I have a very old DOS app which I need to run. It seems to require a drive smaller than 500-odd MB.
I want to dual boot my laptop NT4 and DOS6.22.
[-A-] If I install DOS on the first partition and NT on the second it works fine, it just looks strange that the installation drive for NT is D:. Given that NT can see the DOS drive (and I want to keep it that way) it is counter-intuitive that the C: isn’t the “default drive”.
[-B-] If I install NT on the first partition (as NTFS) and DOS on the second, both work fine EXCEPT I can’t get DOS to run from the NT boot loader, and instead I have to use FDISK to toggle the active partition.
[-C-] If I install both on the first partition, it works correctly, except that since I am obliged to keep the partition less than 500MB (528, I think it is), it gets a bit restrictive after you add a page file, a suspend to disk file, NT, etc. I think this makes the arrangement impractical (the drive is full already, without any of my Windows apps loaded).
I would like to see the NT drive as C: if possible.
In my view, [-A-] is ugly and [-C-] is impractical (and also quite ugly), hence option [-B-] above is my preferred layout, but can anyone advise how I can edit boot.ini to boot to DOS on the second partition when the first is NTFS? Alternatively, can I be creative with FDISK to make NT think it’s on the C:?
None of the following work in my boot.ini with DOS on the second partition:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)=”MS-DOS”
C:=”MS-DOS”
D:=”MS-DOS”
Thanks in advance for any pointers
Martin
