booting linux in windows style http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Loadlin+Win95-98-ME-4.html
4.1 Step One: Edit (or create) config.sys on the root of Drive C. The contents should be similar to the following: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- [menu] menuitem=Linux, Mandrake Linux 7.2 menuitem=Win98, Windows 98 menucolor=15,1 menudefault=Win98, 10 [linux] [win98] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- If your system already has a config.sys file, put those contents under the [win98] section. The [linux] section is left blank intentionally. 4.2 Step Two: Edit (or create) autoexec.bat on the root of Drive C. The contents should be similar to the following: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- goto %config% :linux call c:\linux.bat :win98 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- As above, if you aready have an autoexec.bat file, put those contents under the :win98 section. 4.3 Step Three: Create a file called: linux.bat. Putting it in the root of Drive C is as good as place as any (but it can go anywhere so long as you reference the path or location). The contents should be similar to the following: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- @echo off c:\loadlin c:\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 ro ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- The above example assumes that loadlin.exe and vmlinuz are located in the root of Drive C (or C:\) and that linux is installed on the /dev/hda3 partition. Your configuration may be different. The important thing here is to make sure that loadlin and your linux kernel file are properly referenced. Finished! That should work for you, as that is how I have things set up on my system, which dual boots with Win98. > Yup, thats where I am now =D. Though Compaq never did send me just a windows > cd, I got a 3 cd compaq install, so anything normal window fixes hadn't > worked. Found and XP bootdisk image on the web, and went from there. Very > strangely the first 2 times I had done fdisk /mbr, the computer restarted > displaying only garbage symbols. *The trick was to fall asleep the third > time, in which I woke up to the awful windows tune, strange but true* > > I am not concerned with running windows at the moment. I just want to get > Mandrake up and running. Also just a note, I tried grub that had no luck. > > thanks > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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