Re: Debian and Windows95

1996-12-28 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Buddha Buck wrote: > Greetings, > > All of the Linux+Win95 documentation I have talks about adding Linux to > a working Win95 setup. I'm interested in doing the reverse. I have > heard that Win95 likes to play around with the MBR and partition tables > to make sure that

Re: Debian and Windows95

1996-12-28 Thread Alexander Gieg
> In my opinion, Win95 is clear proof that MS is interested in > writing software that sells and couldn't care less if it works. And M$ sells the beta versions!!! The beta softwares from Debian works better than the final versions of the softwares from Macro$oft. When I'll can, I'll *STOP* using

Re: Debian and Windows95

1996-12-27 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > Back up your Linux system just in case Windows 95 clobbers its partition. > Make a boot floppy, and make sure the floppy works. Then you should be > able to safely install Windows 95. The easiest way to restore LILO is > probably to re-install the package

Re: Debian and Windows95

1996-12-27 Thread Bruce Perens
Back up your Linux system just in case Windows 95 clobbers its partition. Make a boot floppy, and make sure the floppy works. Then you should be able to safely install Windows 95. The easiest way to restore LILO is probably to re-install the package. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PRO

Debian and Windows95

1996-12-27 Thread Buddha Buck
Greetings, Currently, I am running primarily Debian Linux (unstable), but I have a 160MB bootable MS-DOS partition that I am using for one or two MS-DOS programs that don't have Linux counterparts (such as AutoCad). My DOS setup does have some problems, however. Because I've paid much more at

Re: Debian and Windows95 FAT

1996-12-02 Thread Fabien Ninoles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 1 Dec 1996, Mohan Khurana wrote: > > > On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > > > > Don't worry about that, but be ready to mess up a couple of times as you > > learn how everything works. Remember the warning to back up any drives > >

Re: Debian and Windows95 FAT

1996-12-01 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
I'm following this up in debian-user now: On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, Mohan Khurana wrote: > > On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > > Windows 95 and Debian coexist on about five machines > > that I manage. I use loadlin.exe exclusively at this time > > so I allow DOS/WIN95 to boot first