Thomas Kocourek wrote: > Catalin Popescu writes: > > > > A friend of mine has a hard-disk of 1.2Gb with 2 partions: /dev/hda1, > > /dev/hda2. > > > > On /dev/hda1 he has Win'95. Is there any problems with booting if I > > help > > him to insatll Debian 1.3.1 on /dev/hda2 and try to boot it with > > loadlin. > > > > Actually, either method works fine (loadlin vs LILO). My two cents worth: > Be prepared to repair either method when Win95 goes _crash_ and you end up > reloading Win95. For loadlin, have a spare DOS floppy with loadlin.exe on it. > For LILO, have a bootable Linux floppy (created at installation time). After > reloading Win95, either copy over loadin.exe or reboot using the Linux floppy > and re-run LILO as the root account. > > Best of luck!
Actually if you install LILO in a partition instead of on the MBR you can run win95 fdisk to change the active partition and have LILO working again. Compare the two lines: boot = /dev/sda2 # partition boot = /dev/sda # MBR -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Next Level Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
