Re: simple questions
Britton <fsblk@aurora.alaska.edu> writes:
> On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Dana M. Epp wrote:
>
> > Hi Clay.
> >
> > 1) Yes, Debian can co-exist with Win95. Using something called LILO(
> > Linux Loader ), it can become your boot manager, which will allow you
> > boot multiple OS's.
>
> In my experience this works, but not nicely. You have to install Win95
> first, and when it gets itselft all screwed up you can't reinstall it
> without scrapping your master boot record again, which I'm sure is a real
> pain if not a castrophe. I've also found (though it probably should have
> been obvious) that letting Win95 automagically reboot whill mess up your
> MBR to where you have to go in with a rescue disk. When it asks you if
> you want to reboot after you add a driver or something, say no. As for my
> DOS partition, I have to go and run DOS fdisk to get to that, and I know
> this could be done better, but perhaps not with Win95 on the same system.
> Anyone got their setup working better?
Perhaps you should boot into W95/DOS and leave it to loadlin to boot
Linux. That way you can safely leave your MBR in the hands of W95. Of
course you should always have a bootdisk ready, just in case W95 for
some reason becomes unbootable.
- Sten Anderson
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