Pentium Laptop

[Jongage]

Ok I have a regualr old pentium laptop that I am attepmting to use for radio programming. I want to install a dual boot option of DOS 6.2 and windows 2000 professional. However i am having trouble. I understand that you need to partition it first??? The hard drive is two gigs, Ideally I would like one gig for windows and on gig for dos. Is this possible???

I have installation disks for windows and a dos boot disk from bootdisks.com. Plus partition commander 10.

Also how can I access the BIOS. The laptop is an IBM..


-Thanks

-Jon Gage

[wavetar]

So far as I know, Partition Commander only works within Windows...so it's kind of useless for what you want to do.

The easiest way to create the partitions would be to use a Win98SE or WinME boot disk. Boot from the disk, and use the FDISK and FORMAT utilities to partition & format the two drives. More detailed information can be found here:

http://www.webtechgeek.com/How-to-Parti ... -Drive.htm

A simpler step-by-step can be found here:

http://www.ehow.com/how_6027_partition-hard-drive.html

Once they are partitioned & formatted, you load the DOS 6.22 onto the "C" drive partition. Then load Win2k on the second (likely "D") partition.

I'd recommend using at least 1.5GB for the Win2k drive...you'll never use more than 500MB on a DOS drive anyway.

Todd

[wavetar]

Ah, I just noticed you only have a DOS 6.22 boot floppy, not the full DOS 6.22 installation floppies. No big deal...after you've partitioned the drive, when you format the "C" partition, instead of typing "format c:" at the DOS prompt, type "format /s c:" which will tell it to make the drive bootable & copy over the required DOS files to do so from the floppy. You can later copy over any desired DOS files & utilities...or just load up your RSS & let 'er rip.

Todd

[440roadrunner]

Some light reading concerning this subject:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306559


http://www.pctoday.com/Editorial/articl ... 02.asp&gui


You really need to get a complete DOS installation set of disks to be legal. MSDOS is still licensed software

I BELIEVE that W2K works just like XP--when you install it, and if there's a previous system the W2K installer can setup a dual boot manager

Try this:

Obtain (download) a W98 startup disk, that contains Fdisk and format. Partition your hard drive ONLY for the DOS partition, in FAT16, and format the disk. Now use your DOS installation disks to install DOS, or else use your DOS bootdisk to "sys c:"

I would not recommend you try a 1gb partition for DOS. Some (older?) versions of DOS only support 500 mb or so.

After you get a DOS partition that is at least bootable, you should be able to startup your W2K installation, and I believe it should detect the DOS system and lead you through the boot manager.