You can do it on FAT32. I know i have done it on slackware 3.5, had to let
it install lilo automaticly but it did it
-----Original Message-----
From: Nasser Hasian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Hughes, Timothy P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 'tay noh' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, January 07, 1999 7:52 PM
Subject: RE: duel boot linux and win95


>I'm a Linux Newbie myself, but If I'm not mistaken, You can't install LILO
>on a FAT32 partition.  A good majority of people are formatting their
drives
>(for the simple reason that hard disks are usually >4gigs nowadays) into
one
>big FAT32 partition for convenience, and it actually saves quite a bit of
>disk space over FAT16 with the file cluster size issue... Anyways,
>if you'd like to use LILO to dual boot between Win9x/Linux, you must have
>the boot device be a FAT16 drive.  Or you could use Norton's System
>commander to boot between operating systems...
>Or if you BIOS supports, you can just tell it to boot from Hard Disk 1
>instead of Hard Disk 0.
>OR (what I did) you can acquire a copy of NT 5 beta 2 (windows2000) and
>start the install, but cancel it after it does a reboot.  That will leave a
>copy of NT's Boot Loader installed on your boot drive.  Then you can
>configure it to run whatever the H you want :-)
>
>Wow, usually I just lurk.  Now look at what you made me do.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hughes, Timothy
>P
>Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 2:47 PM
>To: 'tay noh'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: duel boot linux and win95
>
>
>Read about LILO.  This is the linux loader, and it will boot both win95,
>and Linux, or other operating systems also.  You need to install Lilo if
>you haven't already to create a dual boot system...
>
>----------------------------------------------
>Timothy Hughes
>Associate Technical Analyst
>American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
>----------------------------------------------
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tay noh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 3:55 AM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: duel boot linux and win95
>>
>>
>> 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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