Re: Debian w/ Win95?
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Marcus Johnson wrote:
> I've got a rank beginner question for y'all: I'm thinking of installing
> Debian on a machine I've got that has Winduhs95 on the primary 4.3 gig
> drive. I don't want to disturb what I've got there (Windoze is so touchy
> as you know), and I'm thinking that it might be best to put it on a second
> drive. So my question is, would that work to put it all on a secondary
> drive or would I need to put part of it on the primary drive? Can
> WinDOHs95 peacefully coexist with Debian Linux? Any recommendations about
> with Debian to go with?
I have initially setup my box to dual-boot using loadlin.
Maybe this config.sys file would help you.
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[menu]
menuitem=Linux, Boot to Linux
menuitem=Win95, Boot to Windows 95
menucolor=15,1
menudefault=Linux, 15
[linux]
shell=c:\linux\loadlin.exe c:\linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro
[win95]
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/\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support
/vvvvvvvvvvvv \--------------------------------------,
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