In your email to me, Davison Avery, you wrote: > > I was wondering if there was a way to install Linux without formatting > my hard-drive and destorying the existing partitions. I currently use > Win95, but want to try Linux out. As such, I would like to have Linux as > the dominant OS, but wish to be able to switch to Win95 if I ever had to > access some of the data and apps I have. > > I know that LILO exists, but all of the messages I've read so far seem > to imply that I will have to format my drive. I really, really don't > want to do this. Any other solutions short of buying Partition Magic?
You don't have to reformat. 'fips' does the same thing (in a basic way) as partition magic. > I have a 2.1 gig C: and a 1.1 gig D:. Win95 resides on C:. If you 1.1 is free for linux, you can load the linux stuff on there, and, after you get it built (still booting from a floppy), you can either install loadlin and boot from within dos/win, or install lilo on the MBR of your first drive. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Madness takes its toll... Please have exact change! ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
