> Hello everyone,
>
> Wel thanks to all the help I got, I now have red hat
> installed, hurrah!
Excellent news!
>we don't use dos just 95.
95 is really only doss dressed up a bit with some 32-bit support.
> right now I have a
> boot disk that
> boots into linux.
> Any help will be very much appreciated,
>
An alternative to LILO is to use loadlin.exe - a doss programme which
loads a compressed kernel into memory and re-boots the machine into
Linux. It's the method I currently use. When the machine boots, it
goes straight into 95, which of course has no knowledge at all of the
existence of the other partition with Linux.
You need to create a doss batch file to boot Linux which need contain
only one line:
loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 rw
- or similar. You can either "F8" on boot, select command prompt only
and run the batch file or else create a shortcut in MS-DOS mode.
This is a bit clunky, I know but it works for me. There is a mini-howto
on this subject called "Loadlin+Win95" - it's probably on your RH CDROM
under doc/howto/mini/.
Martin
