I have a setup where Win95 is on my first disk and Linux is on my 2nd.
LILO is installed onto the 2nd disk. System Commander boots up both
systems just fine. It brings up LILO, of course, in the Linux case.
Which isn't quite as redundant as it sounds. System Commander helps
others who use my system (and are intimidated by LILO) to get to Win95
easily, and LILO lets me boot different kernels easily in the rare (but
crucial) case I need to. All this was not hard to set up, but I seem to
recall that when I installed LILO, it might have erroneously written
over the MBR, so that I had to reinstall System Commander. I might have
done something wrong.
When you're messing with this kind of stuff, make sure you have a good
recovery disk for your Win95 system! FDISK /MBR is your friend...
> > I am having a bit of a problem installing RH Linux on my Sony PCV system. I
> > have Win 98 with a FAT32 on the first Maxtor 6.4 gig HD and I am attempting
> > to install Linux on the second Maxtor 5.1 gig HD.
> > Problem #1) I have previously installed System Commander Deluxe, and when I
> > try to install Linux using its OS Wizard, it says there is not enough space
> > to install it. Does it need a part of the first drive? It has FAT32
> > spanning 100%.
> > Problem #2) When I do get it installed, I tell it to install LILO in the MBR
> > and it writes over System Commander, though when Win98 is reloaded, it
> > reinstalls System Commander. SC does recognize the Linux partition, but
> > says the MBR for it is currupt. HOw can I fix this? Or do I need to make
> > more space on my first HD or make it FAT16.
> > Problem #3) I have an ATI 32 Rage Pro video card, and when I try to setup
> > the clockchip for it, it blanks the monitor and eventually hangs the system
> > making me start over on installation. I can mess with the settings manualy
> > (not probing) and get Linux installed, but then XWindows looks like static
> > when it runs. Also, when I use MetroX to setup everything, XWindows won't
> > run at all giving me an invalid library and Error 111 ??
> > Thanks anyone that can help remedy any of the above problems.
> > Sam Alexander
> I also have win98, and run FAT 32 on a 6.4 Maxtor, although I partitioned mine
> with fdisk and installed win98 first on half the drive and Redhat 5.1 on the
> other half of the drive. I used a system commander like program also at first
> but it's useless as far as I can see with linux. If you install LILO to your
> MBR it will overwrite your SC, so it's kinda useless. I installed it to the
> Linux partition and have to use a boot disk, SC wont just boot the linux withut
> it.
> My system runs great like this, I just have to use a bootdisk to run Linux.
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