Re: Installing Debian Linux on a new system w/out MSDOG
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 1997, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
>
> > I'd recommend creating a partition for MS-DOS right away.
> > No need to actually install it till required.
>
> Agreed. Dos/Win/NT want the first partition of the first drive to be
> "their" boot file system. So decide what you want for DOS and build the
> partition (from a DOS rescue disk that has fdisk) with fdisk (msdos
> version) before you do any linux work.
Well, my /dev/hda1 has an ext2 root partition on it _and_ is marked bootable.
Windows95 is on /dev/hda2 and has no problems with that, contrary to
popular belief and many manuals.
If you have a floppy to boot linux from in any case, the worst that can
happen is that you can't boot your freshly installed windows95. That's
bad, because it takes a lot longer to install and setup than debian linux.
If you're a bit paranoid about your existing setup you can always make a
couple of backups of the first 512 bytes of all primary, extended and
logical partitions and the master boot record before you let the
microsoftware touch your system. That's what I actually did, but I don't
think it is necessary at all. Adding an entry for windows in lilo.conf and
rerunning lilo is enough.
Cheers,
Joost
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