0 Hi all, below a fragment of a manual which I'd like to hear your opinion about:02br 02br 00The best way to install FreeDOS on a common partition with02br 00 another OS would be to make a dump of its bootsector before it02br 00 is has been replaced by FreeDOS. OtherWise you'll have to02br 00 restore the original bootsector (using that OS's boot CD/disk)02br 00 first, then dump it (thus you may dump the bootsectors of up02br 00 to three OSes), restore FreeDOS via booting from a FreeDOS CD02br 00 (floppy disk) and invoking "sys c:" from the root of the RAM02br 00 drive (floppy disk), where the system files are located).02br 02br 00 If you don't know how to store a bootsector in a file, one02br 00 method is to use oscheck. The following command will write the02br 00 bootsector into the file bootsect.bin:02br 02br 00 c:\bimg\>OSCHECK /S c:02br 02br 00 When you have got the bootsector images, proceed to02br 00 installation. You'll need:02br 00 1. metakern.bin (comes with matakern)02br 00 2. metaboot.bot (comes with metakern)02br 00 3. your bootsector dumps (say, they are os1.bot, os2.bot and02br 00 os3.bot and are located in c:\bsimng)02br 02br 00 Assuming matakern.bin and metaboot.bot being in c:\fdos\bin,02br 02br 00 1. c:\>cd \bsimg02br 02br 00 2. Create a new kernel:02br 00 c:\bimg\>copy /b \fdos\bin\metakern.bin + \fdos\bin\metaboot.bot02br 00 + os1.bot + os2.bot + os3.bot c:\metakern.sys02br 02br 00 3. c:\bimg\>cd ..02br 02br 00 4. Install the new kernel:02br 00 c:\>sys c: /K metakern.sys02br 02br 00Thanks in advance,02br 00Anton 0-
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