skyman: yes, like that. i never got windows running with any dos other than dr-dos or ms-dos though. ibm pc dos would work too, but it's just a fork of ms-dos.
jones: i don't need to boot into linux to use dosemu, since if the computer is on, linux is already running, there's an easy solution for you! however i agree, a real operating system is often better than an emulator (but not always depending on the design of the original operating system in question)