Hello, all! this is not really a question but more a sorry tale of co-existing operating systems, one of which is win95. i needed more space for my linux native partition so i changed the linux swap parition type to linux native and then made a swapfile. the swapfile is not working properly yet but i am too anxious to go over to linux and give it a go. so after doing that, i went back to win95 to do some work and win95 said it had found new hardware- my mouse! so it installed the mouse stuff and restarted. i then was made to redo my password for the microsoft network, which restarted windows. when windows restarted i was in 640x480 and 16 colours. my video card was supposedly working but not to look at the screen. it also did a scandisk and truncated my wavemix.ini file. after backing up my PhD thesis and data files i thought i would just see if win95 was using the generic S3 video driver. but no, i could change resolution and colour depth but all my Asus display pages in the display properties were missing. so it restarted and my video was fine and the asus pages were back in the display properties window. but now my monster 3d pages in the display properties were 9and still are) missing. also, i can use netscape and eudora etc., but i can't log onto my departments network. also, all my avi/mpg programs refuse to work. since i have to finish my thesis in 2 months or so i have given up on fixing things and am just getting on with it. ;-0 all this from just changing the type of partition in linux and not even changing the partition sizes etc. well, hopefully i haven't bored you too much. and hopefully, anyone considering putting both win95 and linux on the same partition will think carefully before doing this. maybe buying two HDD's, one for linux and one for win95, would be the way to go. oh well, back to work. ;-) adrian b. ------------------------------------- Adrian Bolzan c/- Dept of Chemistry The University of Queensland Brisbane 4072 Australia Ph: +61 (7) 3365-2281 or 3365-3527 Fax: +61 (7) 3365-4299
