Dual boot MS-DOS 6.22 and NT Wks 4?

This is a discussion about Dual boot MS-DOS 6.22 and NT Wks 4? in the Customization Tweaking category; Im going to inherit an old Pentium based system within the next few weeks. The plan is to format it and use it as a file/backup server on my home network with NT4 as the OS (which it should be able to cope with fingers crossed).

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Im going to inherit an old Pentium based system within the next few weeks. The plan is to format it and use it as a file/backup server on my home network with NT4 as the OS (which it should be able to cope with fingers crossed).
 
However I also want to add a DOS partition to play all my old faves on, VDMSound and Dosbox are all well and good but nothing beats playing a game on the OS and Hardware it was designed for.
 
Heres a checklist, plz tell me if I've missed something important or got a point wrong:
 
1. Wipe the HD
2. Set a 1G primary partition with FDISK and make it active
3. Format with FAT16
4. Install and configure DOS (God that should be fun! ;( )
5. Install WinNT and configure remaining partitions in NTFS (Hopefully it *should* add the DOS partition to the boot menu, I hope?).
 
Any further advice comments would be greatfully apprciated.

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I'd go with a 2GB partition.

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Quote:I'd go with a 2GB partition.

Agree.

And what do you think of DR Dos. From what I've read, it sounds to be a very interesting (and now open) solution.

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FreeDos? I'd use FreeDos over MSDOS nowadays. Better chipset support and more evolved programs in most cases.