Re: Install MS-DOS w/XP

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From: Rodney Kelp (Rodneykelp605_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/10/05


Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:28:30 -0500

Why don't you get an old 386 computer for your dos crap.

<lbrty4us@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1105229907.854876.236340@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Surely someone has been able to do it (6.22, separate FAT partition)
> without wiping XP first (i.e., the edict that "You Must Install DOS
> First, You Wretched Serf!"<g>). Anyone who can point me in a fruitful
> real-world direction by thinking outside the square?
>
> For example, perhaps even the image of an installation on another DOS
> box may be pasted (with its config.sys & autoexec.bat edited to suit
> the new box)?
>
> Or perhaps dossetup.ini on the install floppy set may be copied &
> hacked slightly to suit?
> There must be a better workaround...
>
> Cheers,
> frank
>