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I have a blank hard drive and would like to install DOS or Windows 95 and Linux onto it. What is the best method of doing this?

April 26, 2017best blank dos install linux method Windows 95

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I have a blank hard drive and would like to install DOS or Windows 95 and Linux onto it. What is the best method of doing this?

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It is recommended to install the other operating system first, before installing Linux. This allows the other OS to get comfortable with the hardware and possibly write values to the Master Boot Record (MBR) that it would just over-write if Linux was installed first. You will probably need to do this in a several step method, however. First start the install, but if the operating system partitions the entire drive for itself, see if you can bail out early and use the native fdisk to create a primary partition of the size you want to leave for the OS. Then reboot and go through the install again and normally the OS will just use the space that you just set aside. Once the install is finished, you can begin the Linux installation.