Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Dana M. Epp wrote: > > > Hi Clay. > > > > 1) Yes, Debian can co-exist with Win95. Using something called LILO( > > Linux Loader ), it can become your boot manager, which will allow you > > boot multiple OS's. > > In my experience this works, but not nicely. You have to install Win95 > first, and when it gets itselft all screwed up you can't reinstall it > without scrapping your master boot record again, which I'm sure is a real > pain if not a castrophe. I've also found (though it probably should have > been obvious) that letting Win95 automagically reboot whill mess up your > MBR to where you have to go in with a rescue disk. When it asks you if > you want to reboot after you add a driver or something, say no. As for my > DOS partition, I have to go and run DOS fdisk to get to that, and I know > this could be done better, but perhaps not with Win95 on the same system. > Anyone got their setup working better? Perhaps you should boot into W95/DOS and leave it to loadlin to boot Linux. That way you can safely leave your MBR in the hands of W95. Of course you should always have a bootdisk ready, just in case W95 for some reason becomes unbootable.
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