[Trlog] Adding FREEDOS (or MSDOS) to a WindowsXP Computer

[Mike K9MI]

I'm not sure I understand all the mystery of putting Dos on an XP machine. I 
guess if you have XP already on the machine that is what you're talking 
about. But on a clean disk, I install Dos 6.22. Then I install XP. Now, I 
have a dual boot system. Every time I reboot, I have 15 seconds I believe it 
is, to choose XP or Dos. If I'm missing something here I apologize, but I 
always put Dos on, then XP. If I want to use TR, CT, I pick MS-Dos at boot 
up. Again, I apologize if I'm missing the boat here, but this is how I 
worked with Dos and NT.4, Win2k and now XP. Sorry if I'm on a different 
subject.

73, Mike K9MI

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Bailey" <kd4d at comcast.net>
To: "TR Log Reflector" <trlog at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 18 06
Subject: Re: [Trlog] Adding FREEDOS (or MSDOS) to a WindowsXP Computer


> Oops...I meant FreeDOS (or MSDOS).  Sorry about the mistake.
>
> 73,
>
> Mark
>
> Mark Bailey wrote:
>> Good day, everyone:
>>
>> I have updated my procedure and bootable CD for installing
>> FreeDOS (or MSDOS) on almost any WindowsXP computer.  You can
>> install FreeDOS (or MSDOS) beside WindowsXP without damaging
>> the WindowsXP installation - using completely free open-source
>> tools.
>>
>> I use this capability to run Amateur Radio contest logging
>> programs which are DOS-based.
>>
>> I did the updated procedure and cd because the free tools to
>> shrink the WindowsXP installation have new versions with
>> more error checking.  There are several changes to the procedure
>> to hopefully make it easier to read and follow.
>>
>> There is a FREE CD which contains everything you need to install
>> FreeDOS available for download at
>>
>> http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/
>> Add DOS to preinstalled Windows (see left side)
>>
>> The PDF file of the updated procedure is also available there or
>> directly from
>>
>> http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/file/fdinst095.pdf
>>
>> (Thanks to Johnson Lam for providing the server space for this).
>> The CDROM image is about 30 MiBytes.  The procedure is less
>> than 1 MiByte.
>>
>> I would appreciate feedback from anyone who uses the procedure
>> so that I can improve it.  All of my computers boot both WindowsXP
>> and DOS!  I can do this in under ten minutes - it will take
>> you a bit longer the first time.
>>
>> Mark Bailey, KD4D
>>
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