Here is one howto out of many at
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Linux+DOS+Win95+OS2-1.html
Also check out http://www.linux.org and click on the suport button then
look at the how-to's and mini how-to's I know there is about 2-3 of these
dealing with dual booting. What distrubations are you running, I know
suse comes with a manual that will explain this, and I think red hat also
explains this in there manual. If you use slackware or debian these don't
come with much document so you might want to pick up a book. Running linux
from O'Reily is a really good book and it will explain how to do this.
But basically first you want to BACKUP all your data, then you need to cut
your hard disk up into atleast 3 parts, 1 for win/dos(ussually fat32), 1
for linux (ussually ext2), and 1 for linux swap. Or if you have a second
hardrive, leave the win as is, the cut the second hard drive up into 2
parts, /root and swap (there are many programs to do this, fips, fdisk,
partion magic, these all come with document so I won't expain them here)
just be sure to BACKUP all your data.
Second install linux, depending on your dis this will vary, so check the
documents that came with the particular dis.
Then you have several ways to boot, lilo, loadlin and bootdisk.
Alot of people seem to like lilo, it will give you the option at boot time
which os you want to use, this also comes with documents. This does write
to your mbr so make sure you have a good BACKUP, just in case
Loadlin is a program to 'launch' linux from dos or win95, I personally use
this and is quite helpful. Just put your kernal in the loadlin direcotry
and create a batch file that has this line in it:
C:\loadlin\loadlin.exe vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1
Where vmlinuz is your kernal and /dev/hdb1 is your root part for linux.
There is other options that can be used with this, and there is also
document that comes with it.
Another way you can boot your system is though bootdisk, most dist give
the options to make a boot disk when you install it. Other dis have shell
scripts that will do it for you, and also there is a how-to floating
around that explains this. Try linux.org under support and then under
how-to's.
There are also 'thrid-party' boot utils, but I haven't seen them or know
to much about them, and most of them ussually cost money.
Most importantly BACKUP before you do anything.
Second make sure you study the documenation carefully, linux.org has alot
of docs there and also try useing the man pages. man command. Also there
should be docs from the dis you get, either from there manual, cd, or
web/ftp site.
Bud
>
> hello there
> I have seen a number of people who are running both win95 and Linux, can
> anyone
> explain to me how do do a duel boot
> Tay
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