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Re: Linux/Win95
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tom mills)
Sun Nov 17 19:42:33 1996
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 16:58:59 -0700
From: tom mills <tmills@dimensional.com>
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Stuart Luppescu wrote:
> 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.
That was the only thing I did, win95 install does overwrite the mbr of
the boot drive. I installed win95 first, then put the real os on.
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Tom Mills System Administrator
tmills@dimensional.com ccd.cccoes.edu
Community College of Denver
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