Good catch, Charles. I don't usually think of using loadlin when the Linux
filesystem is a real (ext2) partition, not a DOS directory (like, for
example, Monkey Linux uses).
The details of how to do this are in a HowTo at LRP, specifically
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Loadlin+Win95.html
At 04:30 PM 5/30/00 -0400, Charles E. Gelm wrote:
>
>> If you don't want to use a multiboot loader like LILO, you are stuck using a
>> boot floppy to get to Linux.
>
>Loadlin can take you from DOS/WIN to linux quickly.
>
>It, probably, takes longer to boot Win98 and run LOADLIN,
>than to boot a (vmlinuz or lilo) floppy,
> but you won't need a floppy either.
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