"Xp does not have or use DOS it utilizes a simulated Dos prompt for certain commands and that is all. That is why the MSDOS program must be installed as the tutorial says. Now to save you some time.....the tutorial works if you follow the directions as stated and not try to jump ahead and ignore the steps as given..."

I understand that but it's kind of missing the point of installing xp without a cd
I mean if the cd is available and the laptop hard drive can be hooked up to the computer why go to the secondary step of installing ms dos ?
Why not just boot from the cd and install xp directly ?

"The installation of the boot manager can be installed to any drive and it will automatically set up all drives that are installed or that will be installed."

So you are saying that I can install the boot manager to the slave drive and therefore the slave drive will have control over the primary drive ?

Does the boot manager affect the windows boot ?
What happens if I take the slave drive out ?
Does the boot manager go with it ?