Re: Linux + Win95 + Win NT on one HD
About 3 weeks ago I managed to get dual booting WinNT4 and Debian 1.3.1 (I
doubt it's R6) but faced the following problems, so I think they may be of
use to you seeing as I used the same mini-HOWTO.
I don't think that the HOWTO made clear that you have to run lilo (by simply
typing in 'lilo') before you peel the bootsector to point the NT loader to.
That was the simple problem that stopped it working for me. Don't forget
that if you change any set up details or modify lilo at all, you have to
type lilo again and peel the bootsector off again: It's perfectly simple but
it means that you must always keep the boot disk =)
You do have NT version 4 don't you? If you have NT 3.? then there's a
separate HOWTO for this.
Regarding the partitioning program, I really don't recommend using one
program for all partitioning. If you want to create a partition for NT, use
the NT partitioning program. If you want to create a partition for Linux,
use the Linux one. HOWEVER, I don't recommend using 95 or dos for
partitioning, --apart from what you did in dos to get started-- as long as
you have NT4. This is because dos and 95 (especially 95) were essentially
designed to run as the only OS on your system, because 95 is considered an
'end user' platform, not for power users and developers, etc. NT4 is much
nicer, in the way that it was designed to coexist with 95 and other OSs
because it is aimed at the power user/developer -- hence the rather nice
bootloader. This means that _IMHO_ Use NT4 for disk partitioning for NT and
95 partitions, and use the linux one for linux partitions. NT4 seems to
accept that you do have partitions that are alien to it, and that you might
want to keep them =) It doesn't recognise the linux partitions as linux
ones, but it does recognise that there is a partition there that it knows it
doesn't understand and assumes that it's important.
I like the NT disk administrator for managing 95/dos/NT partitions (it's in
the 'administrative tools' section and is always installed with NT4), but
would never use anything but linux to manage linux partitions
Good luck,
Tristan
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