[arachne] Re: Boot Win Me to DOS

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On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 22:42:14 -0500, Glenn Gilbreath Jr. wrote:

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> Greg,

> I have XP on my "new" Dell Inspiron 510S, nope...no DOS in XP.  WinXP is ba
> sed on Win NT.  If you want a DOS, you have to partition the hard drive and
> install one in it's own partition, then use a boot manager if you desire t
> o boot into it.

Aha! I hadn't thought of that method.

OTOH so much of the hardware on the XP machine is plug-n-play that I
don't think I'll bother. I'll just keep the ol' Pentium I with its
DOS-only boot for a while longer.

> Just like you would not expect to find DOS on a Ubuntu Linux machine.

Yes, I may fire up the old Win98 machine and load Ubuntu on that. That
is one really useful way to get rid of Win98 <GGGGGGGGGG>

    
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