O(ff)T? or O(n)T? 22DISK on a PC

On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 20:29, Joe R. wrote: I don't recall Pete saying he needed to tweak an existing partition on a drive though - or is there some other justifcation for using that software? I've lost track of what the deal is with mixing DOS with modern versions of Windows. I'm sure the current versions a few years ago weren't too happy co-existing on the same drive (probably because both DOS and Windows of the time made assumptions about them being the sole OS on the drive. Windows certainly used to stomp all over the MBR which used to drive me nuts! :-) Currently I triple-boot the desktop PC between Linux, Windows 2k and DOS 6.22 - but I'm using SCSI disks, so Linux and Windows co-exist on the larger drive and DOS has a seperate drive all to itself. I just change the boot SCSI ID in the SCSI BIOS to boot from the DOS drive when I need to. Not sure if there's an equivalent if you're using IDE drives though. As an aside, I'm curious as to what (if any) equivalents to 22disk there are for Linux. Certainly it's probably a more viable platform if you want to have hardware fitted at strange addresses or outside the scope of the BIOS than DOS is. I have no idea what sort of control the kernel headers allow you over the floppy controller(s) though. Of course you probably have a good reason for using 22disk - either a) because it's there or b) because you have images in 22disk's format (which I believe is proprietary and undocumented, grr!) that you want to restore... cheers Jules