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Re: Linux/Win95
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sheldon E. Newhouse)
Sun Nov 17 16:28:31 1996
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 16:25:52 -0500 (EST)
From: "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <sen1@math.msu.edu>
To: "Subhas C. Roy" <subhas@pobox.com>
cc: Stuart Luppescu <s-luppescu@uchicago.edu>, redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199611172113.QAA24919@zippy.concentric.net>
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On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Subhas C. Roy wrote:
> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 16:13:46 -0500
> From: "Subhas C. Roy" <subhas@pobox.com>
> To: Stuart Luppescu <s-luppescu@uchicago.edu>
> Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Linux/Win95
> Resent-Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 16:14:18 -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.
FIPS works, too.
-sen
>
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