Re: annoying Win95 workaround
I to use and love System Commander. If both of these partitions you
created are primary partitions, you may have System Commander set up to
hide one of your primary partitions when the other is active. This is a
very useful feature to be able to set primary partition visibility for
each OS selection, as Windows 95 and NT can sometimes do very bad things
if they find another Microsoft OS on a primary partition. If you're ever
in doubt or get confused about what your current settings are, you can
always run Linux's cfdisk to see all your partitions and their IDs.
Whenever System Commander is set up to set a primary partition hidden
for a specific OS selection, it adds 10 to the partition's ID value,
even if the partition is not a DOS type, which is a rather undesirable
behavior.
DOS FAT 12 ID: 01
DOS FAT 16 ID: 04
DOS FAT 16 ( > 32MB): 06
DOS FAT 12 hidden: 11
DOS FAT 16 hidden: 14
DOS FAT 16 hidden ( > 32MB): 16
Linux Ext2: 83
Amoeba: 93
As you can see, adding 10 to any DOS partition type makes it hidden, but
if your Linux partition is also a primary partition and you set it as
hidden, then adding 10 to it's ID will make it an Amoeba partition.
You can go to the "Local special options" menu for each OS selection in
System Commander's menu to set primary partition visibililty for each OS
selection.
Linux's cfdisk will let you change just the ID of a partition if you
ever manage to screw things up.
Good luck,
Chris
Charles Perry wrote:
>
> I need to run my Win95 programs for work related reasons...not because I like
> microsoft.
>
> With that said, I install Debian a few months ago and loved it. That is until
> it kept causing Win 95 to lose partitions. I would set up everything I needed
> in Win 95 (2 partitions so that the linux kernel can be put within the first
> 1024). I had an c: and e: drives. (I use system commander for the multi
> booting) After I booted Linux a couple of times, I would lose the e: drive.
> This happened many times. Anyone ever heard of this????
>
> Igor Grobman wrote:
>
> > Some time around Sat, 08 Aug 1998 16:49:25 EDT,
> > Charles Perry wrote:
> > > This is the HowTo that I was looking @...would this work if I wanted to
> > > run Win95 on top of Linux???? vice versa??
> >
> > This question should really be directed to debian-user@lists.debian.org .
> > Ext2 drivers only let you see the linux partition, but do not let you run
> > linux on top of win95. However, there are some alpha windows emulators for
> > linux (wine and twin) which you could use to run some win95 applications on
> > top of linux.
> >
> > --
> > Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation....
> > Igor Grobman igor@debian.org igor@igoria.net
>
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