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I was wondering if Linux can coexist with Windows 95.  Also, how would
I go about installing Linux to make it work?

        If you don't want to boot from a floppy, just remember that only
the kernel loads from the floppy and once it's loaded, it's never
accessing again.  In other words, the only slowdown you see from using a
boot floppy is the initial load time and even still, it's not much
slower than booting from hard drive considering a considering a
compressed kernel is less than 500K.

Mike.

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Software Engineer
Hummingbird Communications Ltd.                 North York, Ontario, Canada

            Disclaimer: I speak for myself, not my employer

Bob

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Good luck,

Rich

: >

: > >I was wondering if Linux can coexist with Windows 95.  Also, how would
: > >I go about installing Linux to make it work?
: >
: >         Perhaps the safest way to do this is to leave a free partition
: > (or partitions) after your Windows '95 partition(s), install Linux
: > there, and boot from a floppy.  That way you won't interfere with the
: > Windows '95 loader (which I believe cannot be made to boot Linux like
: > the NT loader will).

When I first partitioned my drive (540MB) I only did 300MB of it and
loaded Win95.  Then once I had 95 working I booted to my linux boot disk
and fdisked the rest of the drive for linux.  Once linux was installed, I
configured and installed lilo.  No problems at all.

Now when I boot I get a LILO message and a 3sec delay for me to hit the
shift key to get a prompt.  I then can type Windoze_95 or Linux.  If I
don't hit the shift key it goes straight into windows.  No flames please
for having this as the default.  My system in on 24hrs a day and in Linux
95% of that time.  This just made more sense for my needs.

rob

On Sun, 27 Oct 1996 22:03:54 -0500, Georg Karawas

http://www.v-com.com/syscomm.html

Also, I recommend Partition Magic to handle disk partitioning.  For
more info, go to:

http://www.powerquest.com/

-gary

Quote:> Install Win 95
> Install Linux in its OWN partition. Mine exists on the
> SECOND hard disk. In other words, Linux does NOT need to be on
> the first hard disk.
> Create a file /etc/lilo.conf that specifies Win95 and Linux
> as the two boot options. The first option is the default. Be
> careful to install lilo in the MASTER BOOT RECORD of the

I can't get lilo to do a thing with this, though if I make a floppy and copy
the /boot/* stuff to it (ext2 fs) and then use this lilo.conf it will look
at the floppy and let me select the OS's. Why does it work with a floppy,
but not the MBR of the primary ide drive?  I did change the fd0 reference to
hda and it's no go.

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Quote:>Also, I recommend Partition Magic to handle disk partitioning.  For
>more info, go to:
>http://www.powerquest.com/

Quote:>-gary

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Quote:> Hope this helps.

I accidentally read the boot text bios puts out and noticed it missing,
added it and all worked well.

Do you know how much time I've wasted on this problem when it was so easy to
solve?  Too much!!!
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Duncan (-:

Michael Hentges, Senior Consultant
CSC Consulting and Systems Integration, Minneapolis, MN

http://www.winternet.com/~mhentge

: >>If your second hard disk has MORE than 1024 cylinders, chances are
: >>that LILO will complain.
: >>To verify this, create a "/etc/lilo.conf" file by hand and then type:
: >>lilo -t
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Why even bother with LILO? I use loadlin.exe (from CDs). All I had to
do was cp /zimage /DOS (if you mounted your dos/win95 disk as /DOS) and
then from DOS : loadlin zimage root=/dev/hda3 rw

or if linux is on second physical disk:
loadlin zimage root=/dev/hdb rw

What's wrong with that? I think it is much easyer than playing with LILO
(especialy if you have a large disk).I even have that loadlin statement
as a menuitem in my config/autoexec files in dos....

bye

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Hrvoje Vulin at PMF Zagreb , CROATIA

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Actually.... it is possible...using boot disk is better idea as with Win
95 has this habit of re-writing the boot sector (thus killing Lilo), if
you make certain system changes (some which require Windoze to restart.
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