I want to install MS-DOS 6.22

[frombauer]

Yes. But I want to create another bootable partition since I want it to coexist with my win2k installation (create that boot menu etc). I need pure DOS so I can run a few of my old games. How can I safely do it? I have Partition Magic 7.0, but I'm afraid creating a new partition will mess up my MBR.

So, what is the best way?

Thanks in advance.

 

[AndyHui]

Beware that MSDOS 6.22 only talks to FAT16 and not FAT32, so your maximum partition size will be 2GB.

If I were you, I would sys c: with a Win98 boot disk, and then simply copy the required files to the MSDOS 7 partition, such as HIMEM.SYS, EMM386.EXE, SMARTDRV.EXE and whatever else you need.

 

[Escalade]

Another option would be to create a bootable floppy of MS-DOS 6.22 with CD-ROM support and you can also make a very large ramdisk. This way you have a near zero chance of messing up your existing Win-2k installation. All this assumes you have a hard disk formatted in a way DOS can read it, as was pointed out above.