On Mon, 19 May 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Mon, 19 May 1997, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > > > I'd recommend creating a partition for MS-DOS right away. > > No need to actually install it till required. > > Agreed. Dos/Win/NT want the first partition of the first drive to be > "their" boot file system. So decide what you want for DOS and build the > partition (from a DOS rescue disk that has fdisk) with fdisk (msdos > version) before you do any linux work.
Well, my /dev/hda1 has an ext2 root partition on it _and_ is marked bootable. Windows95 is on /dev/hda2 and has no problems with that, contrary to popular belief and many manuals. If you have a floppy to boot linux from in any case, the worst that can happen is that you can't boot your freshly installed windows95. That's bad, because it takes a lot longer to install and setup than debian linux. If you're a bit paranoid about your existing setup you can always make a couple of backups of the first 512 bytes of all primary, extended and logical partitions and the master boot record before you let the microsoftware touch your system. That's what I actually did, but I don't think it is necessary at all. Adding an entry for windows in lilo.conf and rerunning lilo is enough. Cheers, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .