Re: simple questions

[Neilen Marais <brick@cryogen.com>]

Hi



>[my own whining snipped]
>
>> 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
>
>I will never do this.  It's a question of technical ethics.  You are
>probably right that it is the best way, but I don't use either Win95
>or
>DOS often enough for it to be worth sacrificing my MBR to Win95.

Well, a very nifty way to do this if you are using dos 6+ is to simply
have one of your multiple boot options load loadlin automatically,
causing it to look like you istalled some nifty bootmanager like OS/2's
(which I used for quite a while)

Of course I solved the problem by only having linux on my machine <g> 
And BTW, what do you mean sacrifice MBR?  I don't use mine for much but
booting, and the loadlin route is a pretty good one for newbies
specially who might get lilo wrong...


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E-Mail: Neilen Marais <brick@cryogen.com>
Date: 27-Nov-97
Time: 14:48:46

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