Windows95 and Linux Installation
Hello, please help
I've read all the other messages about Win95/98/NT and Linux together,
but non of them answered my question.
My computer has been setup with Windows 95 for a couple of years now
and I am very familiar with it. It has one 1.7GB IDE hard drive, all
as one partition. I wanted to setup Debian Linux on my machine without
having to repartition my harddrive and go through all that stuff
again, so I added a 814MB harddrive to my system as the slave. I
downloaded the Debian Linux install files to my Win95 drive and put
them in a directory called C:\Linux. I ran the install.bat and went
through the first few steps of the install, Keyboard setup,etc. Then
partitioned the second(814MB) physical drive in my harddrive like this:
/dev/hdb1 type 83 Linux Swap 96MB Logical
/dev/hdb5 type 82 Linux 718MB Primary boot
my first question is: is this correct?
Initialization, Mounting, seem to work fine.
When I get to the step Install Kernel and Modules, I can't find the
original Win95 harddrive with the Linux files on it to continue. Do I
need to make a DOS partition on the 814MB harddrive and copy the
C:\Linux directory to that? or do I need to make the 814MB hard the
master disk?
I guess the overall question I have is, Is it possible to add a drive
to an existing Win95 system and install Linux on the new drive without
erasing the Win95 drive? I would like to setup a dual boot - LILO
right? I've read all the other messages on that as well, and it
doesn't seem too hard, once i get the rest set up.
Thanks a lot for all your help
Mike Archer
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