The system:
P3 800Mhz
1GB RAM
SCSI hard drives
Adapatec 2930U2 scsi card
My plan:
sda1:
100MB FAT32 DOS or even FreeDOS
sda2:
rest of the disk space for XP
sdb1:
Linux - whole disk
I had a few free hours yesterday so I took an old XP VPC I had that had free
disk space at the end of the drive and experimented. I booted the VPC from a
DOS floppy, used fdisk to create a primary partition from some of the free disk
space. I then formatted it, sys'd it, and installed grub. It worked great.
With those results I went and did it in real life and it works great. Windows
and Linux can read/write to the dos partition. Thanks to everyone for your
comments.
sda1: Windows XP ntfs
sda2: DOS - fat32
sdb1: Linux - ext3
My grub.conf (installed on sda2):
color light-gray/blue black/light-gray
# End GRUB global section
title DOS
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
title Win XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
Thanks,