[4807] in RedHat Linux List
Re[2]: Linux/Win95
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Hamstra)
Sun Nov 17 16:12:04 1996
From: Mark Hamstra <mhamstra@sullivan.bentley.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 16:11:35 -0500 (EST)
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Stuart Luppescu <s-luppescu@uchicago.edu> wrote:
> On 17-Nov-96 "Subhas C. Roy" wrote:
> >>> On 17-Nov-96 Zero ToL wrote:
> >
> >> >>Does anyone know where I can find documents on how to partition my hard
> >> >drive to run linux and windows 95?
> >
> >> There is a mini-FAQ on Linux and Win95, but don't ever try to put
> >> Linux and Win95 on the same physical drive. It will destroy your
> >> Linux installation. I learned the hard way :-{(
> >
> >I have Linux and Win95 on the same 1.6GB WD EIDE hard drive (500MB for
> >Win95 and rest for Linux :) and they are happily coexisting just fine
> >thanks to LILO. I did fresh installation of RH 3.0.3 on it several
> >times trying various partitioning schemes (sometime recklessly). No
> >bad things happened. I use Partition Magic to steal disk space for
>
> Hey, that's a good trick! How did you do it? The mini-FAQ warns against
> it and it was confirmed by my own experience. What I did was install
> Win95 in a partition in which dos had been installed (with Linux on
> the rest of the disk). I believe Win95 wrote over the boot sector
> and prevented me from getting to my Linux partition at all. I don't
> know what would happen if you installed Win95 first and then installed
> Linux in the other partition.
It would just plain work. As would re-installing LILO onto the overwritten
boot-sector in the 'Win95 installed last' scenario: just boot Linux off a floppy
and /sbin/lilo.
Mark Hamstra
Bentley Systems, Inc.
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