Re: Debian and Windoze 95
Thomas Kocourek wrote:
> 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!
Actually if you install LILO in a partition instead of on the MBR you
can run win95 fdisk to change the active partition and have LILO working
again.
Compare the two lines:
boot = /dev/sda2 # partition
boot = /dev/sda # MBR
--
Lee Bradshaw lee.bradshaw@mindspring.com (preferred)
Next Level Communications bradshaw@nlc.com
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-user-request@lists.debian.org .
Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .
Reply to: