On Fri, 8 May 1998, Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD wrote:
> Tom Diehl and group:
>
> Well, I sit here at midnight, with my wife in bed having wondered what evil spirit
>has overtaken my body, as I watch Win95 install and with utter amazement as I watch
>the simple beauty of being able to boot either linux or dos. Such simple pleasures in
life. Could not figure out how to get Win95 FAT32 file-type working, but who's
complaining...
You might have to recompile the kernel, I cannot remember if fat32 support
is in the stock redhat kernels or not but that is for later.
>
> Thanks especially to Tom, who has been kind enough to mentor me through this
>process. In ham radio we call this an "elmer" one who holds you by the hand until
>you get on your feet as Tom has in this "hobby"...
I guess I have a new name! :)
Thank You.
>
> One thing, though, I see now that Win95 is on, it seems to have disabled my dual
>boot mode... ie., I don't get that nice linux prompt...but I guess there needs to be
>some challenge left
Mike,
I got your progress reports this morning. Congrats!! For the moment I am
going to assume that all of your questions are answered except the one above.
(I sent you another mail b4 I read this one)
I am going to assume that either you put lilo on the MBR or did not mark
the Linux partition active. Win95 assumes (incorrectly) you MUST want to ONLY
boot Win95 so the install program marks the win95 partition active. Using
whatever fdisk you like mark the linux /boot partition active. If you use
Linux fdisk be sure to turn off the active flag on the win95 partition. If
you put lilo on the mbr, boot with the Redhat boot disk and do the
linux single command we talked about b4 and rerun lilo. In case you forgot
the command is "linux single root=/dev/hda1 initrd=".
One more thing, The reason I keep telling you to make dos partitions with
dos fdisk is because Linux fdisk does not make them properly without some
extra work (As you saw when you brought up dos fdisk). You did the correct
thing by deleting the linux made dos partition and recreating it with
dos fdisk. There is an explaination of this in the fdisk docs if you
are interested.
>
> So here we go...
Go for it!! Good Luck and keep me posted.
......Tom "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] for you are crunchy and good with ketchup."
Unix IS user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
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