>From: "Manny Styles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Windows >Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 22:21:41 -0400 > >No joke at all. I still have to use Windows, for one because of my ISP's >software, but I was in the process of downloading the pre-release of >Mandrake 6.0 when I noticed lnx4win. From what I have read, it will put a >Linux shortcut on your desktop and you can load it from Windows. What you are describing sounds like LOADLIN. This is a program that'll let you launch linux from Windows without having to use lilo. All you have to do is copy your vmlinuz file to your Windows partition and then create a batch file, telling LOADLIN where to locate the vmlinuz file. You do have to change the settings on the MS-DOS batch file to tell it that you want the system to re-start in MS-DOS mode before running the program. LOADLIN, in my opinion, will launch linux faster than lilo. But it may have been the system I was running it on. Anyway, LOADLIN comes with EVERY distribution of Linux that I've ever seen. Sounds like Mandrake just took out the guesswork by already creating the necessary. Arnold _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
