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Re: Linux/Win95
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (robob)
Mon Nov 18 14:21:28 1996
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 14:29:12 -0500 (EST)
From: robob <robob@robob.com>
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In-Reply-To: <XFMail.961117162612.s-luppescu@uchicago.edu>
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On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Stuart Luppescu wrote:
>
> OK. I've been properly wised up. I should have had a boot floppy to re-run
> lilo from; or I should have installed Win95 first then Linux. However,
> I had corroborative evidence for my statement: the Win95+Win3.1+Linux
> mini-HOWTO says:
>
> You will need TWO hard disks. This is due to some DOS/Windoze
> limitations with respect to booting and allocation of drive letters.
> Believe me, I tried to get it working with one.
>
>
This is also incorrect. You can have Win3.1 and Win95 even in the same
partition. You then put Linux in another partition. At one point I ran
out of partitions and did put one OS (95 I think) on another drive. At
one time this machine could boot Dos/Win3.1, WFW3.11, Win95, Linux, and
NT. This without Partition magic or any of its type. No diskettes to boot
either, everything would boot from the HD. One probably does need to do
this in the right order. I had win3.1 then 95 then NT on top of the 3.1
which is legal. The fips'ed the first physical drive and put Linux on it.
I have since killed the Win95 and used that part for Linux as well.
:)
Robert A. Ober Robob@robobo.com www.robob.com, ftp.robob.com,
robob1.robob.com,etc
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