Re: Debian 1.31
On 7 May, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 04:42:23PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote:
>> > I want to have the ability to dual boot with Debian and Windows 95 ? (I
>> > know with Windows NT and Windows 95 this is possible). Will such thing
>> > be possible Debian & Windows 95?
>
>> Absolutely. Lots of us do this all the time. Very easy to configure and
>> use.
>
> It might be helpful to explain how to do it. I know the default
> installation will only let you boot off the primary drive, as LILO is
> installed into the partition and not the boot sector. It's always easy
> to boot from the boot disk made during installation, but booting Linux
> off the secondary drive? Is there a graceful and free way to do this
> without installing LILO in the primary drive's boot sector?
>
> Jeff
Sure use loadlin instead. It never touches the boot sector. You don't
have to wory about Win95/98 erasing the LILO boot sector info. Just
copy your kernel image to some directory on the Win95 partition and run
loadlin on it.
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