Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation

1999-01-22 Thread Ed Boraas
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Michael Stenner wrote: Don't know too much about this, but it seems odd to jump from hdb1 to hdb5 with no 2,3,4 in between. However, if it is working so far, it's hdb5 is the first extended partition number. hdb1 is the primary partition, hdb2 is an extended partition (no

Windows95 and Linux Installation

1999-01-21 Thread Mike Archer
Hello, please help I've read all the other messages about Win95/98/NT and Linux together, but non of them answered my question. My computer has been setup with Windows 95 for a couple of years now and I am very familiar with it. It has one 1.7GB IDE hard drive, all as one partition. I wanted to

Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation

1999-01-21 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 1/21/99 11:14:19 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /dev/hdb1 type 83 Linux Swap 96MB Logical /dev/hdb5 type 82 Linux 718MB Primary boot my first question is: is this correct? This seems fine. The normal rule of thumb is that your swap

Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation

1999-01-21 Thread Michael Stenner
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Mike Archer wrote: ...them in a directory called C:\Linux. I ran the install.bat and went through the first few steps of the install, Keyboard setup,etc. Then partitioned the second(814MB) physical drive in my harddrive like this: /dev/hdb1 type 83 Linux Swap 96MB Logical

Fwd: Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation

1999-01-21 Thread Harrison, Shawn
excerpt When I get to the step Install Kernel and Modules, I can't find the original Win95 harddrive with the Linux files on it to continue. Do I need to make a DOS partition on the 814MB harddrive and copy the C:\Linux directory to that? or do I need to make the 814MB hard the master disk? snip

Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation

1999-01-21 Thread Kirk Hogenson
Jay wrote: Mike Archer wrote: When I get to the step Install Kernel and Modules, I can't find the original Win95 harddrive with the Linux files on it to continue. Do I need to make a DOS partition on the 814MB harddrive and copy the C:\Linux directory to that? or do I need to make

Re: Fwd: Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation

1999-01-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Harrison, Shawn wrote: But, LILO will be installed on the slave drive? So you can't use it as the boot loader. Win95 is on the primary drive, so you'll use it as the bootloader and then run LOADLIN from within Windows (DOS, really) to

Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation

1999-01-21 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Hello, please help Hi, ok My computer has been setup with Windows 95 for a couple of years now and I am very familiar with it. It has one 1.7GB IDE hard drive, all as one partition. I wanted to setup Debian Linux on my machine without having to repartition my harddrive and go through all

Re: Fwd: Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation

1999-01-21 Thread Michael Stenner
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Harrison, Shawn wrote: But, LILO will be installed on the slave drive? So you can't use it as the boot loader. Win95 is on the primary drive, so you'll use it as the bootloader and then run LOADLIN from within Windows (DOS,

Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation

1999-01-21 Thread servis
*- Michael Stenner wrote about Re: Fwd: Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Harrison, Shawn wrote: But, LILO will be installed on the slave drive? So you can't use it as the boot loader. Win95 is on the primary drive, so

Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation

1999-01-21 Thread Michael Stenner
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *- Michael Stenner wrote about Re: Fwd: Re: Windows95 and Linux Installation On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Harrison, Shawn wrote: But, LILO will be installed on the slave drive? So you can't use it as the boot