Re: [newbie] Dual boot with Windows 95 LM 8.1
On Friday 07 December 2001 05:10, you wrote: Dear All, I am considering either going with vmware in Linux or doing a dual boot with Win95 and LM 8.1. I know that everyone says to always install Windows first, however may I install it now somehow without erasing my Linux 8.1 if I use the great partition tool System Commander? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia you could do it with a linux boot disk, just install winders (but don't allow a reformat of the entire drive, just the fat32 portion), boot into linux as root in a console, type lilo. should find and setup all the partitions for the next boot. it is improtant to know all the drive letters in both linux and M$win. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual boot with Windows 95 LM 8.1
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 05:10:37 -0500 Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I am considering either going with vmware in Linux or doing a dual boot with Win95 and LM 8.1. I know that everyone says to always install Windows first, however may I install it now somehow without erasing my Linux 8.1 if I use the great partition tool System Commander? Thanks for the help. As long as you set it up correctly SC will have no problems, either partitioning or booting the installed OSes. I have SC installed on 3 multi boot system, all with 1 version or other of Win and various Linux distros as well as BeOS. If you would like more details you are welcome to contact me off-list. Unless it is something for which you can use only Win 95 I would strongly suggest that you use either 98 or 2000 instead. As of Dec. 17 mickey soft will no longer over Any type of support for Win95, No Windows update, no nothing. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual boot with Windows 95 LM 8.1
Sorry to post this way , but you could use FIPS! any problems or queries , feel free to contact myself directly if you wish. Will help as muuch as i can Regards [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual boot with Windows 95 LM 8.1 On Friday 07 December 2001 05:10, you wrote: Dear All, I am considering either going with vmware in Linux or doing a dual boot with Win95 and LM 8.1. I know that everyone says to always install Windows first, however may I install it now somehow without erasing my Linux 8.1 if I use the great partition tool System Commander? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia you could do it with a linux boot disk, just install winders (but don't allow a reformat of the entire drive, just the fat32 portion), boot into linux as root in a console, type lilo. should find and setup all the partitions for the next boot. it is improtant to know all the drive letters in both linux and M$win. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual boot with Windows 95 LM 8.1
On Friday 07 December 2001 11:10, you wrote: Dear All, I am considering either going with vmware in Linux or doing a dual boot with Win95 and LM 8.1. I know that everyone says to always install Windows first, however may I install it now somehow without erasing my Linux 8.1 if I use the great partition tool System Commander? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia Be sure to have a prepared and pre-formatted DOS or vfat partition ready on hda (primary IDE). Not extended, but primary DOS, otherwise Windblow$ will reformat your entire drive including the Linux partition if you give it half a chance. Imho easiest way: Stick in a new (physical) drive, set it to first IDE in your bios... Install Winblow$ therethen change the disks around (making the linux disk first again)... boot Linux and add Windblow$ to lilo or grub as '/dev/hdc1'.Done:) The disk-changing can best done through your BIOS- you don't have to open your case. Be sure to have a boot floppy around any which way:) You never know! Good Luck, Harm Bathoorn. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual boot with Windows 95 LM 8.1
I too am a System Commander fan, (have been for years) and tried to use it to boot Mandrake 8.1 along with Win98 and Win2000. I had the MS OSs loaded first, however, and tried to load Mandrake afterwards. The results were disastrous: I lost both MS installations as Mandrakes's installer insisted on destroying the partition table. Ironically, SC has been so reliable for me in the past that I'm not familiar with the recovery tools, and was unable to recover. The other challenge is that with System Commander one needs to set up the Linux boot record in a superblock on the /boot partition, but the Mandrake installer insisted on installing LILO or GRUB and stuffing the boot block into the hda MBR, which is a bad thing. The 8.1 installer is really badly broken. I confess I have neither the expertise nor the time to navigated around those problems, and went back to the latest version of Red Hat, whose installer is not mindlessly bent on destroying all other OSs on the disk. Red Hat and System Commander work well together. For you, Marcia, I suspect that SC will happily do the job, transferring the LILO or GRUB MBR record into it's own data structure. You must of course have space for another FAT or FAT32 primary partition (which Win98 and SC both need). I'd recommend you upgrade to SC7 if you haven't already - there are improved partition-wrangling features you'll like, plus a slightly nicer GUI, if you care about such things. If someone can help Marcia and I out on these issues we'd both be most grateful. julian. = At 05:10 AM 12/7/01 -0500, you wrote: Dear All, I am considering either going with vmware in Linux or doing a dual boot with Win95 and LM 8.1. I know that everyone says to always install Windows first, however may I install it now somehow without erasing my Linux 8.1 if I use the great partition tool System Commander? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com == Julian A. Opificius. 802 Fawn Road, Elk River, MN 55330. Home: 763.441.1291, Cell: 763.360.5919 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 3268206 == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
