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RetroForth/Native currently needs another OS for installation purposes. I've installed it to a hard drive using a Linux live-cd to create the partitions and install GRUB. Another option would be to temporarily install the hard drive in another machine and install it there.
Instructions are at http://retroforth.com/wiki/?id=InstallingNative
Hopefully when I resume work on the native system this can be made less troublesome...
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Maybe.
I don't know of any DOS "fdisk" tools that allow setting of partition types, but if you can find one, it should be possible. (The next version of RetroForth/Native will have a way to change a partition type, though creating partitions may still be beyond its abilities). You will also need a way to copy RF/Native to the partition, again I'm not sure if there are any tools suitable for this.
If you can tolerate booting under DOS, mbload might work: http://my.execpc.com/CE/AC/geezer/temp/mbload.zip
Sorry I can't be more help, but it's been literally years since I ran DOS 
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The native system needs GRUB to boot, and I'm not aware of a way to install GRUB to a hard disk under DOS. In addition, the DOS fdisk's I've found so far don't allow setting the partition type (it should be a primary partition, of type 0x9e for RetroForth/Native to recognize it.)
It may be possible to change the partition type from inside RF/Native; I'll check this week. But you'll still need a way to get GRUB onto the hard disk...
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