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Re: Linux + Win NT OK?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (robob)
Tue Nov 19 23:48:55 1996

Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 00:00:44 -0500 (EST)
From: robob <robob@robob.com>
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On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Stuart Luppescu wrote:

> Having already revealed my total ignorance of how Win95 interacts with Linux, I
> thought I'd better ask the question rather than screw things up again. To wit:
> Having gotten very tired of windows 95 crashing all the time, I was thinking of
> installing NT 4.0 over my Win 95 install. Will this do anything dangerous to 
> Linux installation? Linux lives on /dev/hda1, and Win95 is on /dev/hdb1. Thanks
> for the advice in advance.

What do you mean by NT over 95?  One cannot install NT into the same
directory structure as Windows95 as you can over 3.1 .  You can put NT
into another directory on the same partition.  Will not bother Linux in
another partition.  May need to rerun Lilo, I don't remember.

Robert A. Ober
Robob@robobo.com	www.robob.com, ftp.robob.com, robob1.robob.com,etc



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