I know what you mean about authority! Right now I boot Linux by F8 to stop the windows from loading and then I run my linux bat file that calls loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1.
Now being that my wife is in computer pre-school, I don't think she can boot Linux. The partition argument between windows and Linux should good to me, I'd have to study that more. I was planning to use chos to boot my computer, but right now I don't want the wife and kids playing with Debian. I am a newbie (6 months) and they can barely get a floppy in the drive...that's why I choose the F8 method. Rod > -----Original Message----- > From: Raymond A. Ingles [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 04, 1999 4:52 PM > To: Person, Roderick > Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' > Subject: Re: Can Windows95 cause error on my Linux Drive. > > On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: > > > Hey All, > > > > Recently, I added a new drive to my system as the slave 2nd drive. > > Therefore, I made my old drive a Win95 drive so the family could play > games > > and such. Now it seems that everytime I log into my Linux drive > (/dev/hdb) I > > get file system not unmount correctly errors. I fsck and get it in > operating > > conditions and a day or two later i get the same errors. Could this be > due > > to how other users are logging out of win95 or not logging out and just > > shuting off the machine? Drive 1 is totally win95(1.2GB) drive 2 is 5GB > for > > Linux in 4 partitions and 1GB for win in one partition. Anyone having > this > > problem. > > Hmmm. So far as I know, just booting Windows (or even powering > it down) shouldn't be able to muck up a Linux partition. I can only think > of two ways this could happen. First, Windows doesn't agree with Linux > about where the partitions are and is overwriting things. In this case, > though, you'd probably have a horrible time recovering the filesystem, and > it sounds like fsck is doing the job for you so far. Second, someone might > be using a Windows tool to access the Linux partition and that utility is > buggy. I've never used it but I hear there is some sort of tool that'll > let you do that. > > On the other hand, how do you boot Linux on this machine? Is there a boot > menu (like LILO) or do you use a boot floppy? At home, my system boots > Linux by default, and only boots Windows if someone specifically asks. > Fortunately, my wife knows how to use Linux, at least for web surfing, and > knows not to just power off Linux. I don't have a lot of authority in our > house, but she trusts me about the computer. :-> She only made that > mistake once, and I got just the symptoms you describe. > > If it's possible for your family to accidentally boot Linux, they might > say, "Oh, shucks" and power off and on again for a second try at > Windows... thus hosing Linux. Make sure they know the consequences of > this. > > If it's still too hard for them to understand, you can set things up to > always boot Windows, and use a boot floppy to boot Linux. It's less > convenient for you, but *very* hard for your family to make a mistake > (unless you leave the floppy in the drive). If you do this, make sure you > have at least one backup boot floppy in case the main one goes bad. > > Sincerely, > > Ray Ingles (248)377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Modern inductive method: 1) Devise hypothesis. 2) Apply for grant. > 3) Perform experiments. 4) Revise data to fit hypothesis. 5) Publish.