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- Linux and Windows 95 can get along quite well on the same hard disk.
- Not only that, Linux can mount, read, and write to Win95's VFAT
- partitions (only using the 8.3 standard though). I have heard rumors
- (some from #linux) that there is a VFAT kernel patch. If this does
- exist please mail me about it and I can try to help. It helps having
- SCSI working before you embark on a project of this magnitude.
- So, your C: drive is sliced up into:
-
- |---------------
- 300M |/dev/hda1 C: DOS/FAT (Win 3.11/DOS 6.22)
- BIOS C: |---------------
- 528 M 212M |/dev/hda2 / (root partition) Linux ext2
- |---------------
- 16M |/dev/hda3 /dev/swap (linux Swap partition, 16M of it ;)
- |---------------
-
-
-
- Before you do anything, make sure you have LILO installed on your HD
- and working AND have a working bootdisk!
-
- GO ahead and install Windows 95 right over Win3.11/DOS 6.22. This
- re-routes your MBR to boot-up Windows 95 directly, but it should work
- (It has for me multiple times, with multiple betas and the final
- release of Win95.)
-
- If you didn't pick up on it already, you won't get a LILO prompt when
- you boot up. DON'T PANIC! Simply drop that boot-disk into drive A: and
- reboot. If this is a boot disk you made with your current (or
- previous) kernel image, it should boot right into your Linux partition
- right away. If you are like me and didn't keep a boot disk around get
- the boot144 (or boot122) Slackware install floppy off of tsx-11 and
- create that disk. The first time you get a pause type "mount
- /dev/hda2" (or whatever your Linux partiton is).
-
- At this point you should be back in Linux. Login as root and run the
- program 'liloconfig'. Hit '6' to recycle your current lilo
- configuration. do a shutdown -r now to reboot to see if it works (it
- should). You'll get your LILO prompt back and should be able to dual
- boot into either OS.
-
- Multiple HD Configs:
-
-
-
- Many people wnat to keep a separate HD for Linux, and a separate one
- for DOS, with good reason. There are about 3 possible ways to do this.
-
- 1: 2 separate disks, C: just DOS/FAT and D: just Linux/ext2
- 2: 2 'overlapping disks', physical C: partitioned into a small DOS
- partition with the rest of the disk for Linux while D: is totally
- DOS/FAT running Win95
- 3: ????? (help me on this one ;)
-
-
-
- Two is the situation I have on my own machine (known as
- litterbox.in.net).
-
- For all of these situations just adapt my instructions from the first
- 1/2 of this HOWTO: make sure you use YOUR partition names and not
- mine. (imagine running mkswap /dev/hdb1 when that is your root
- partition!).
-
- Jonathan Katz <jkatz@in.net>
-
- EOF
-