Re: Windows 98 and Debian Dual Boot

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   On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Danny R. Gray wrote:

   > Hello all,
   > 
   > I'm sure this has been answered a hundred times.  I have a Win98 machine
   > that was up and
   > running.  I added a new drive to run Debian "hamm" on.  The installaion
   > went great but I am 
   > still booting from the floppy.  I noticed that Win98 has an operating
   > systems loading message before the Windows 98 message.  How do I set up
   > dual boot using Win 98?  Or should I  use lilo even if it is not the
   > "normal" boot drive?  I want to keep the user choice simple like "NT
   > BootLoader" since my wife uses the machine and is not very technical.
   > 
   > A pointer to a Mini-HowTo would be great. 

   You can use LILO, just set up Windows98 as a default OS to boot.
   The HOWTO on LILO is located at sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO
   or just look in /usr/doc/lilo/

   Andrew

   > -- 
   > Danny R. Gray
   > Research Technician


And your /etc/lilo.conf file may look like this

i) For a Linux (default) and Windows machine

boot=/dev/hda2
root=/dev/hda2
compact
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=20
image=/vmlinuz
  label=Linux
  read-only
other=/dev/hda1
  label=dos
  table=/dev/hda

ii) For a Windows (default) and Linux machine

boot=/dev/hda2
root=/dev/hda2
compact
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=20
other=/dev/hda1
  label=dos
  table=/dev/hda
image=/vmlinuz
  label=Linux
  read-only


In either cases you can choose the OS at boot time.

    At\'e breve

Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Departamento de Matem\'atica, Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia
Universidade de Coimbra
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