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by **John Rudma** » Wed, 08 Jan 1997 04:00:00

Hello

I'm certain someone reading this has done this - have you got time to
reply?

I've read the Mini-Howto and scoured DejaNews so I have a fairly good
idea what to do, but am lacking in confidence...

My current setup is:

Booting via LILO (version 17, with REWRITE_TABLE flag)
Disk 1: 2Gb, with 4 partitions
- DOS (about 1Gb) - the default
- Linux (about 500Mb)
- Linux swap (about 128Mb) (if you've got it, flaunt it <g>)
- unused partition (about 340Mb)
(also, Disks2, 3, 4: DOS/Windows 3.11 stuff)

I wish to install Windows 95 on the unused partition for reasons beyond
the scope of this article <g>.
Obviously it is much cheaper to buy the W95 upgrade than the full
version, so this means installing another copy of DOS/Windows 3.11 and
then upgrading (I think that's legal, isn't it?).

What can I expect to happen? Will I have to re-install LILO due to
anything that DOS/W95 does?

For those who really fancy a challenge, I also have a SCSI Syquest
removable drive which I can happily mount under Linux. Could Windows 95
be installed on a removable drive instead, for the rare occasions when
it would be used?

Looking forward to being blinded with science...
Cheers
JR

(Disclaimer: Nothing above is anything to do with Sun UK - I'm just
visiting)

by **Tim Sadl** » Thu, 09 Jan 1997 04:00:00

G'day,

>My current setup is:
>Booting via LILO (version 17, with REWRITE_TABLE flag)
>Disk 1: 2Gb, with 4 partitions
>- DOS (about 1Gb) - the default
>- Linux (about 500Mb)
>- Linux swap (about 128Mb) (if you've got it, flaunt it <g>)
>- unused partition (about 340Mb)
>(also, Disks2, 3, 4: DOS/Windows 3.11 stuff)
>I wish to install Windows 95 on the unused partition for reasons beyond
>the scope of this article <g>.
>What can I expect to happen? Will I have to re-install LILO due to
>anything that DOS/W95 does?

As soon as you install WIN95 your MBR will be wiped and replaced with
Microsoft's own win95 bootstrap. You will thus need some sort of disk
to boot up your system and then reinstall LILO.

Quote:>For those who really fancy a challenge, I also have a SCSI Syquest
>removable drive which I can happily mount under Linux. Could Windows 95
>be installed on a removable drive instead, for the rare occasions when
>it would be used?

There is no reason that I can think of that a removable drive can't be
used. LILO should even be able to boot it if it is always the same
device when attached.

Quote:>Looking forward to being blinded with science...

I'll try to keep quite next time!

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Tim Sadler Coopers & Lybrand

"The greatest problem with communication is the illusion that it has
been accomplished."
George Bernard Shaw
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by **Jon Martin Solaa** » Thu, 09 Jan 1997 04:00:00

> >I wish to install Windows 95 on the unused partition for reasons beyond
> >the scope of this article <g>.
> >What can I expect to happen? Will I have to re-install LILO due to
> >anything that DOS/W95 does?

> As soon as you install WIN95 your MBR will be wiped and replaced with
> Microsoft's own win95 bootstrap. You will thus need some sort of disk
> to boot up your system and then reinstall LILO.

That is only a problem when lilo is installed in MBR. If you install
lilo in the superblock of a partition it'll be safe. All you have to
do is make that partition active after installing win95 and optionally
add win95 as a boot option in lilo.conf.

--
Jon Martin Solaas

http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonso

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