DOS Dual Boot?

[Farkyss]

On a little box I have 2 hard disks, an 850Mb Primary, and 410Mb Secondary. I want to use it as secondary internet PC for internet connection sharing with my main PC, and also (and more importantly for me personally) to play all the old DOS games I have that won't work on my spanky new PC.

I want to install Win98 on the primary disk and DOS6.2 on the secondary with some kind of system for chosing which OS at bootup. I believe there is a way to do this by altering something in the MSDOS.SYS file. If so, how do I achieve this? and if not, any ideas what else I can try?

[Archer]

Just pressing F8 will give you the option screen to start up TRUE DOS only or you can just install tweakui and use its option to always show boot options,which is the same thing.

[Farkyss]

I'd actually got as far as enabling the always display boot menu. Trouble is that previous version of ms-dos isn't an option, mainly since the win98 was a clean install. Is there a way of manually creating this option and getting it to point at d:\dos as the boot directory?

[Rellik]

Looks like you need to get system commander or partition magic w/ boot magic.
My dad currently uses System Commander to dual boot Win 95 and Dos 5.0

[Archer]

Like the man said if you want an earlier version of dos than suplied with w98 then your going to have to make dual partitions and use a boot manager though they should run under the version with w98,version 6.22 if memmory serves.
There are several freeware boot and partiton managers available [i.e.Randish partition manager] if you look round.

[ReBoot]

The best (IMHO) boot manager is from www.xosl.org
It's free, and gui driven, and will allow booting to any partition/drive in your system, no matter what the OS.
It will boot Windows (all versions) DOS, Linux, BeOS, BSD, etc...
At least it does on my system <IMG SRC="smilies/wink.gif" border="0">