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[wordplay]

What would i have to do to install Dos on Win2kNT?

[Dunx]

I assume you're talking about a dual boot setup here, right? And you have installation media for DOS?

Disclaimer: I've setup dual boot Win9x/Linux machines several times, but am taking a bit of a flyer on this configuration.

Option 1 is to go for a dual boot system: you'll want to get PartitionMagic to set aside some space for DOS, then BootMagic or System Commander to control the boot menu (I believe NT has boot menu control built in, but (1) I've never used it; and (2) it's blasted tricky to get going from what I've read).

I do not know where you'll be on file sharing between the two OS installations.

Option 2 is to get VMWare to create a virtual PC under NT, and then to install DOS into that. This allows DOS to run without exiting NT, and the two operating systems can communicate like networked PCs.

Of these two, option 2 will almost certainly be easier to setup, but has the major disadvantage that because the machine is being shared between two OSs the resource requirements increase (eg if you have 128Mb of RAM installed, each OS will get 64Mb to play with). Also, the hosted operating system (DOS, here) will have less than perfect access to the hardware. This will be a complete washout for games.

So, the answer to your question is "it depends" :)

[janderk]

Originally posted by wordplay:
What would i have to do to install Dos on Win2kNT?

Just curious: Why do you want to do that? Windows 2000 runs most DOS applications just fine as long as they don't misbehave.

Jan Derk

[ryount]

The NT boot menu works ok as long as you have the other operating system installed first. So if you have Win98 installed, then install Win2K it sets it up automatically. But if you ever go back and reinstall 98 it blows away the boot menu. There is a way to save the boot sector and files though, can't remember off hand. Not sure if it would work with DOS though, Win2K might just decide you don't need it.