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Re: Debian and Windoze 95



Catalin Popescu writes:
> 
> A friend of mine has a hard-disk of 1.2Gb with 2 partions: /dev/hda1, 
> /dev/hda2.
> 
> On /dev/hda1 he has Win'95. Is there any problems with booting if I help 
> him to insatll Debian 1.3.1 on /dev/hda2 and try to boot it with loadlin.
> 

Actually, either method works fine (loadlin vs LILO). My two cents worth:
Be prepared to repair either method when Win95 goes _crash_ and you end up
reloading Win95. For loadlin, have a spare DOS floppy with loadlin.exe on it.
For LILO, have a bootable Linux floppy (created at installation time). After
reloading Win95, either copy over loadin.exe or reboot using the Linux floppy
and re-run LILO as the root account.
Best of luck!

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