Windows 98 and Debian Dual Boot

1999-01-08 Thread Danny R. Gray
Hello all,

I'm sure this has been answered a hundred times.  I have a Win98 machine
that was up and
running.  I added a new drive to run Debian hamm on.  The installaion
went great but I am 
still booting from the floppy.  I noticed that Win98 has an operating
systems loading message before the Windows 98 message.  How do I set up
dual boot using Win 98?  Or should I  use lilo even if it is not the
normal boot drive?  I want to keep the user choice simple like NT
BootLoader since my wife uses the machine and is not very technical.

A pointer to a Mini-HowTo would be great. 

-- 
Danny R. Gray
Research Technician
Department of Pathology
UNC-CH School of Medicine


Re: Windows 98 and Debian Dual Boot

1999-01-08 Thread Andrew Ivanov
On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Danny R. Gray wrote:

 Hello all,
 
 I'm sure this has been answered a hundred times.  I have a Win98 machine
 that was up and
 running.  I added a new drive to run Debian hamm on.  The installaion
 went great but I am 
 still booting from the floppy.  I noticed that Win98 has an operating
 systems loading message before the Windows 98 message.  How do I set up
 dual boot using Win 98?  Or should I  use lilo even if it is not the
 normal boot drive?  I want to keep the user choice simple like NT
 BootLoader since my wife uses the machine and is not very technical.
 
 A pointer to a Mini-HowTo would be great. 

You can use LILO, just set up Windows98 as a default OS to boot.
The HOWTO on LILO is located at sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO
or just look in /usr/doc/lilo/

Andrew
 
 -- 
 Danny R. Gray
 Research Technician
 Department of Pathology
 UNC-CH School of Medicine
 
 
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   On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Danny R. Gray wrote:

Hello all,

I'm sure this has been answered a hundred times.  I have a Win98 machine
that was up and
running.  I added a new drive to run Debian hamm on.  The installaion
went great but I am 
still booting from the floppy.  I noticed that Win98 has an operating
systems loading message before the Windows 98 message.  How do I set up
dual boot using Win 98?  Or should I  use lilo even if it is not the
normal boot drive?  I want to keep the user choice simple like NT
BootLoader since my wife uses the machine and is not very technical.

A pointer to a Mini-HowTo would be great. 

   You can use LILO, just set up Windows98 as a default OS to boot.
   The HOWTO on LILO is located at sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO
   or just look in /usr/doc/lilo/

   Andrew

-- 
Danny R. Gray
Research Technician


And your /etc/lilo.conf file may look like this

i) For a Linux (default) and Windows machine

boot=/dev/hda2
root=/dev/hda2
compact
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=20
image=/vmlinuz
  label=Linux
  read-only
other=/dev/hda1
  label=dos
  table=/dev/hda

ii) For a Windows (default) and Linux machine

boot=/dev/hda2
root=/dev/hda2
compact
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=20
other=/dev/hda1
  label=dos
  table=/dev/hda
image=/vmlinuz
  label=Linux
  read-only


In either cases you can choose the OS at boot time.

At\'e breve

Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
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Universidade de Coimbra
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