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- It is possible to install a dualboot between FreeDOS and Windows.
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- MS-dos, Windows 95/98/98SE/ME (Millennium Edition):
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- *have your Microsoft operating system installed.
- *install FreeDOS. do NOT install bootsector.
- *save the Microsoft Bootsector by running COPYBS C: C:\BOOTSECT.BIN
- This creates the file bootsect.bin
- *obtain from the freedos bootdisk both meta-all.sys and metaboot.bot
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- *Create the MetaKern bootloader entries
- (defaults to first added bootsector):
- COPY /B META-ALL.SYS + BOOTSECT.BIN + METABOOT.BOT C:\METAKERN.SYS
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- *Write the FreeDOS bootsector to C:, and specify
- the name for the above created "kernel" file:
- SYS C: C: BOOTONLY /K METAKERN.SYS
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- Windows NT/2000/XP:
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- *C: needs to be FAT or FAT32, not NTFS or Dynamic Disk
- *install FreeDOS to c:\fdos for example.
- *add a line to c:\boot.ini:
- echo C:\FREEDOS.BIN = load FreeDOS beta9 >> c:\boot.ini
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- *write FreeDOS bootsector to c:\freedos.bin:
- SYS C: C: C:\FREEDOS.BIN
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- * now the NT bootmenu displays the option to load FreeDOS.
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