First post, by coherentbaboon
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Some time tomorrow I intend to get to work on my all purpose legacy PC. The plan is to have the machine running DOS, DOS with Windows 3.1 and Windows 98SE with MS-DOS 7.10. The two DOS partitions will also be running software to slow the computer down significantly.
In order to achieve this goal, I need a boot manager that will prevent the OS's from conflicting with one another. To this end I have decided to use GAG. Essentially, does anyone have experience using this? It is my hope to install GAG first and then install the operating systems, accepting that I will probably have to partition the drive beforehand. I am not quite sure however, of the practicality of this solution so I'm hoping someone has tried this before. Otherwise I would simply be interested in peoples thoughts in relation to what I have planned.
For the record, the machine is as follows;
Gigabyte GA-5AX (mine appears to be a rare example with UDMA-66)
AMD K6-III+ clocked from 400MHz to 500MHz
512Mb PC100 SDRAM (2 x 128Mb and 1 x 256Mb)
Voodoo 3 3500 16Mb (Chosen for both it's Glide capability with 22bit colour via RAMDAC and the recently posted Windows 3.1 driver support)
SoundBlaster AWE64 Gold
3Com 100Mb Network adaptor (both soundcard and NIC come with DOS and Windows 3.1 driver support)
80GB 7200rpm Seagate UDMA-66 hard drive
100MB ZIP drive
3.5" & 5.25" Floppy disk drives 1.44MB and 1.2MB respectively
16x Lite-On CD-RW
16x Lite-On DVD-ROM