How to boot PC to open in DOS?

[bazz]

Big headache here. :(

I am presently running windoze Me on drive C. On drive D I want to install Red HAt Linux but I need to peerform certain functions firstly, using DOS. I cannot seem to get my PC toi open in DOS and the book says that I can't use the MS DOS Prompt as windows must not be open.

My shutdown dialog only gives me the choices of, shutdown, restart or hibernate so I cant do it there.

Can anyone help. I am not optimistic that I can succeed with the install as I know nothing about DOS. There again, where would we be if we didn't learn things?

bazz

[liorean]

Windows ME doesn't have booting directly into DOS by default. The feature is there, but it's carefully hidden. I would suggest you to use a DOS bootdisk instead, as you can find at <http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm>

[bazz]

Thank you Liorean. I have downloaded the file to my desktop. Isn't it OK to burn this to a CD instead of a floppy where my CD-RW is the first drive to boot (just like the Floppy used to be).

The boot order is CD-RW, C:

Bazz

[JohnnyPotseed]

Can't you install DOS on drive d as a stanalone OS? Just found a site with an ISO so you can boot from CDROM DOS 7.10 (http://newdos.yginfo.net/msdos71/) If I understand correctly this makes a bootable CD. Just skimmed the site, seems to have some pretty good info as well.