These steps worked for me but be warned that adding another OS is risky. Do not try this unless you are a skilled linux user. It is often safer to use an emulater such as dosemu, qemu or etc. I may have left out some steps because It's been a few months since I last did this.
0. Backup anything important!
1. Find the number of your 12GB partition.
- System->Administration->System Monitor
- On the "File Systems" tab note the number. For example "/dev/sda3" is my FreeDOS partition.
2.
Download and burn a FreeDOS LiveCD. (Use the same tool you probably used to make your Ubuntu LiveCD.)
3. Install FreeDOS.
This video should be helpful to watch.
- Insert it into your CD drive and restart your computer.
- When the FreeDOS splash screen with the fish appears, select "1" to boot FreeDOS from the LiveCD. Select "1" on the next screen to Install it.
- Follow the on screen instructions and FreeDOS
should install itself to your Fat32 partition.
4. Add FreeDOS to your grub bootloader.
- Backup and edit your menu.lst...
sudo cp "/boot/grub/menu.lst" "/boot/grub/menu.bak"
sudo gedit "/boot/grub/menu.lst"
- Add the following to the file...
title FreeDOS
root (hdx,y)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
- Change the line "root (hdx,y)" to match where FreeDOS was installed. x tells which hard drive FreeDOS was installed on. It should be 0, since this is your main hard drive. y is the partition it was installed on. It should be
one less than the partition number you found in step one. For example on my system, FreeDOS was installed on "/dev/sda3". Therefore I had to use...
- Save menu.lst and restart the computer. Select "FreeDOS" from the menu. If it doesn't work, try different values for x and y.
Good Luck :)
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