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First post, by 4bitter

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I recently acquired a Toshiba Satellite 330CDT (Pentium 266 MHz MMX) in very good condition. I’ve installed DOS 6.22 on a 2 GB FAT16 partition on the hard drive. I’ve also successfully accessed a 64 MB USB Flash drive from DOS using the lone USB 1.1 port. I’ve not had any success accessing a 4 GB CF card in the PCMCIA, partitioned as two 2 GB FAT16 drives.

The computer came with Windows 2000 running on a FAT32 partitioned hard drive and seems to work fine and can access a 4 GB USB Flash drive.

Would like to run DOS and/or Windows 3.1 games and apps and run Windows 98SE games and apps.

The laptop holds a single, 2.5 inch EIDE 44 pin drive, two PCMCIA slots, CDROM drive, 1.4 MB floppy drive and a single USB1.1 USB port. The BIOS only supports bottling from a floppy, HD or CDROM.

I can install DOS on a HD and Windows 98SE on a different drive, but it’s somewhat inconvenient swapping hard drives from the external drive bay. Is dual booting from a single hard drive possible? Could DOS be installed on the 4GB CF card. Card Services 3.0 doesn’t allow access fromDOS. A link to a different version or a setup guide would be helpful. Thanks

Reply 1 of 12, by myne

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Install dos. 3.x if you want. Just use a different dir to "windows" Eg "w31"
Then 98.
If it goes normal, you should have old dos in the f8 boot menu.
If not, let us know.

But basically the 98 msdos. sys should contain boot settings along the lines of show menu=1, show old dos =1

And the dos files (config.sys, msdos.sys command.com) should be renamed to. *.dos

All it does is do some renaming trickery when it boots.

It's possible to put dos on after 98,but it has to be manually.

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Reply 3 of 12, by myne

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No, it'll install on the same partition.
It will then show dos in the f8 boot menu.

I wouldn't recommend messing around with different boot partitions.

Kiss.

Keep it simple stupid.

Use a second partition for apps.

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Reply 4 of 12, by myne

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I suggest testing it out in hyperv or virtualbox.
The install will take minutes.

The template in my sig will speed up the dos/3.1 process.

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Reply 6 of 12, by Linoleum

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I did the DOS, then Win98 install and really didn't like the fact your Windows 98 partition is disk "D"... Using xfdisk to make 2 "primary active" partitions and choosing from which OS i want to boot is a more graceful solution to me.

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Reply 7 of 12, by myne

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Just install to the same 2gb partition.

Why did you have to overcomplicate it?!

Ffs.

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Reply 9 of 12, by myne

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Simpler.
Then you just put all the 9x apps on d:
Done.
No fucking around with fdisk.

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Reply 10 of 12, by the3dfxdude

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It's simpler to have DOS and Windows on the same partition and use the boot menu there. You can install DOS first, and get all the old utilities from 6.22 that way. Or you can install 9x directly and then copy the utilities from the CD. (I haven't exactly used 98 for DOS upgrade or remember what they put in the CD, but it might be the same as 95)

Since you have a large 120GB drive, you can convert to FAT32 during install of Windows, and then use a partition resizing program to resize to the maximum your computer can allow, if you had partitioned at 2GB for a 6.22 install. Or you can just install Windows straight away.

Reply 12 of 12, by myne

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Don't resize it. Dos will stop working.

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Mechwarrior 2 installer for Windows 10/11 Re: A comprehensive guide to install and play MechWarrior 2 on new versions on Windows.
Dos+Windows 3.11 auto-install iso template (for vmware)
Script to backup Win9x\ME drivers from a working install