Re: what tools do you use for programming

[Jauvane Cavalcante de Oliveira]

> > You can install both OS's, but you must be careful about which to
> > install fisrt... (NT, of course, linux is a little more friendly with
> > other OSs:)

I have installed in this order the three OSs I use. Win95, WinNT 4.0, Debian
Linux 2.0. WinNT, as previously stated, has the OS loader which allows you,
by default, to choose between Win95 or WinNT. I do that because I may use
each OS in whichever it is stronger (or if it is the only option), namely
Win95 for multimedia related stuff (video capture/processing due to
ActiveX), WinNT for OpenGL based stuff (I work with VRML and VR now), Linux
for Java, Hobby, Video for Linux II, Anything that does not require Windoz.

It is possible to add Linux to your boot sequence by following the following
procedure:

Assuming that Linux sits in /dev/hda4, Win95 in /dev/hda2 and WinNT in
/dev/hda3

First mount the Win95 partition, let's suppose mounting as /win95. After
that you may type the following command:

    dd if=/dev/hda4 bs=512 count=1 of=/win95/bootsek.lin

After that edit boot.ini and add the following line at the bottom:

    C:\bootsek.lin="Debian Linux 2.0"

You might need to increase the "timeout" line to something else if it has 0
there. Usually 5 to 8 (seconds) is just fine. This is the time you will have
before the OS loader choses the default OS (the first one).

This way next time you boot te option Debian Linux 2.0 will show up, when
you choose that one the bootsek.lin has the info necessary to load Linux. Be
aware that you should have installed the kernel and lilo in your HD, namely
on /dev/hda4 for this demo.

Good luck,

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