THis one has already probably been answered, but i'm going to take a crack
at it anyway.
1) Lilo has an option to NOT have you sit and wait for 5 seconds to boot
in...it can wait indefinately. The command to do this escapes me (it's a
setting in the lilo.conf file tho) so if this hasn't been covered yet,
someone look it up and post it pls.
2) Config.sys boot is not bad..but I like a real boot loader like lilo much
better (my opinion). In config.sys (DON"T SHOOT ME FOR PROVIDING MSDOS
INFO PLS...I"M AN OLD CONVERT....I PROMICE!!! *Grin*.) you add a
********************************************************
[menu]
menuitem <item name>, <menu display name>
menuitem...
menuitem...
menudefault <color>, <timeout>
[<item name>]
[<item name>]
[common]
**********************************************************
Or something like this. THis sets up your config .sys Then the first
thing in your autoexec you put:
goto %config%
and then set your sections up like:
<item name>:
<item name>:
etc.
This is a piss poor description of how to set up a multi boot system on
windows 95/98/dos, but it's the idea that counts. If you are REALLY
interested in doing it, i'll look up the info in my old dusty Dos 6x books
and see if I can't help you out...:)
Doug
p.s. Use lilo, it's MUCH easier..*snicker*
-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Pfleger [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, November 07, 1998 7:00 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Inspiron 3200 + Linux
> local HD installation, and I am now booting linux from LOADLIN.EXE which
is
> extremely surreal, because the Windows 95 blue-sky screen comes up and
then
> suddenly is replaced by Linux character-mode boot stream. (Thanks Marvin
> Stodolsky for nudging me in that direction).
I just read the message about using LOADLIN.EXE today. I hadn't realized it
was an option. I don't know anything about writing Windowns config.sys
files,
and I'm curious: using this solution, how do you choose which OS to boot
(Linux or Win9x)? Is it the same kind of hit a key within 5 seconds thing?
I've always wanted a boot loader that would (or was configurable to) wait
indefinitely until I made an OS selection. I don't like having to sit there
and wait through the reboot so I don't miss the 5 second opportunity to hit
the right key when I'm booting into the non-default OS.
(The old NEXTSTEP 3.2/Intel had a great system that let you choose whether
to reboot into NEXTSTEP or DOS/Windows when you started the reboot. A
generalized version of that is what all the OSes need. Not gonna happen
anytime soon though. Oh well.)
-Karl
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