On Thursday 11 September 2003 00:27, Kent West wrote: > >There are plenty of multiboot HOWTOs, but they all seem to be WinNT + > >something. I can't find a W95 + W98. Before I start trying to figure > >out the details, I'd just like to know if I'm chasing an impossibility. > >Incidentally, I'd probably sit the disk in my old 75MHz 'spare' computer > > to do the installs so I don't risk munging my Debian system. When > > it's all set up, I'll pop it into my No 1 Linuxbox and set about tuning > > GRUB. > > > >And, no, I'm not going to let those Windoze partitions anywhere near the > >modem. ;) No email, no browser. Any internet stuff goes through > > Debian. > > > >cr > > IIRC, DOS, Win95, and maybe Win98 insist on being on the first partition > on the "C:" drive. If you BIOS can trick these OSes into believing > /dev/hdcx is "C:", you're a bit closer. I don't want to say you're > "chasing an impossibility", but I think you'll have to come up with > several kludges to make it work.
Yes, I know. I've read the various multi-boot HOWTOs, which tell how to trick Windows with kludges, but they're all NT+95+Linux, or NT+98+Linux, etc.... I couldn't find anything that confirmed 95 and 98 can co-exist. It now seems this can be done. cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
