Dominic wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
> Wel thanks to all the help I got, I now have red hat installed, hurrah! I have
>to say that after preparing the hard disk and just generally overall it was a
>very easy instillation. Now I have another question(s) I have to keep Windows
>95 around, so I wanted to use LILO to offer the choice of windows 95 or
linux at
>power up.
> How do I do this? I looked at the howtos but none of them mentioned windows 95
>and linux, we don't use dos just 95. The option was given to me during the red
>hat install but I hit the wrong button so right now I have a boot disk that
>boots into linux.
> Any help will be very much appreciated,
> Thanks!
> Dom
>
If you have joe or some other simple editor available in linux, create a
lilo.conf file in /etc. I use Win95 and linux regularly. My lilo.conf file
is as follows:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos (this can be anything, it is the name you type to get into
Win95)
table=/dev/hda
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hdc1
ready-only
append="mem=79M" (this line allows me to access more than 64 MB of RAM)
This lilo.conf file will default to Win95. If you want to default to linux,
then put switch the other and image sections. In addition, I have Win95 on
hda1 and my linux root directory on hdc1.
Once you have create the lilo.conf file run /sbin/lilo. This will put lilo
in your master boot record. Let us know if you have problems.
Skip Haak
