[4809] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Linux/Win95
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Subhas C. Roy)
Sun Nov 17 16:20:01 1996
To: Stuart Luppescu <s-luppescu@uchicago.edu>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
From: "Subhas C. Roy" <subhas@pobox.com>
Reply-to: subhas@pobox.com
In-reply-to: Message from Stuart Luppescu <s-luppescu@uchicago.edu>
of "Sun, 17 Nov 1996 14:53:45 CST."
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 16:13:46 -0500
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
> >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.
My PC came with Win95 pre-installed. I used Partition Magic 2.0 to get
diskspace for Linux from Win95 partition. The magic of Partition Magic
is that it allows you to resize DOS/Win95 partitions
non-destructively. No re-installation of Win95 is needed. It worked
for me safely and painlessly.
--
Subhas Roy subhas@pobox.com
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