I've recently been trying to put DOS on an old HDD I've got lying around. Trouble is, it's already got Windows 98 on it. I resized the 98 partition down and made another for DOS. This is where I hit the problem: I'm using QEMU to run the DOS setup disks (The PC I'm planning on putting this into doesn't have a FDD) but it'll only accept the disk (/dev/sda) instead of the partition (/dev/sda2). If I pass the partition (qemu-system-i386 -hda /dev/sda2 -fda DOS-1.img) DOS installs fine but I can find no trace of the install - nothing on sda2 or sda1. I'd really like to make this work, but I'm stuck on how. I came up with some possible solutions but I have no idea how to actually do any of them. Anyway, they are:
- Pass the disk (/dev/sda) to QEMU and tell DOS to install on the 2nd partition
- Pass the partition (/dev/sda2) to QEMU, but this doesn't seem to work
- Make the 98 partition secondary (sda2) so the DOS partition is first (sda1): Thus DOS can install as normal (Maybe?)
- Install DOS to a .img file (which I can do easy) and copy that onto sda2 (would it be bootable? I think I tried it at one point to no avail - Not sure what I did though)
- Put DOS on a CD and install it on the final machine (Not sure this would change anything, and would get awkward when I have to put in disk #2)
So, there's my problem, and some possible solutions. If it helps, I'm running QEMU under Ubuntu 12.04, Windows 98 SE is already on the disk, I'm trying to install MS-DOS 6.22, and I've got a boot manager in there somewhere (SyMon? I think?).
Thanks in advance!
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