Cool! Learn something new every day. Thanks. I guess I get the foot
in mouth award,
eh?
Martijn van den Burg wrote:
> Hi Steven,
>
> >
> > Wow! You can do that? Does this mean that you have a loadlin icon on your
> > 9x desktop that will cause loading to boot Linux and replace 95 as the
> > running OS?
>
> Indeed.
>
> > I am confident that Linux will not run "under" 9x. How does
> > this work? It seems to be a bit dangerous. If you have files open in 9x
> > wouldn't you lose your work when Linux started?
>
> Actually, you make an icon that starts up the (dos) program 'loadlin'. This
> will then kick you into Linux. If I do this, Windows reports something like
> 'this program must be run under DOS, continue [y/n]'. If I select yes then Windoze
> shuts down in a controlled manner and the box will (warm)boot to your favorite OS.
>
> >
> > Ok, I can RTFM if you don't feel like going into it. I probably won't look
> > into this I haven't touched 9x in months. I use Solaris, NT, and Linux.
> >
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Martijn
>
> = Martijn van den Burg
> = Tech writer, archiver, Linux user
> = Publications Department, ASML
>
> > Steve,
> >
> > Lenz Grimmer wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> > >
> > > > I believe what you want is your MS icon so you don't have to boot into
> > > > DOS (yes 95/98 is still DOS!) I don't believe there is an emulation
> > > > that will quite get you there in Linux. I doubt there ever will be.
> > > > Sun does have such a thing for Solaris, but I have never heard a good
> > > > word said about it. What you are really looking for is wine:
> > > > http://www.winehq.com/ . It's still in alpha so far as I know. I
> > > > haven't tried to use it lately, but I have run some simple wintel apps
> > > > with it a while ago.
> > > >
> > > > If you are serious about having a linux icon, I suggest you find a
> > > > good book on computers such as "How Computers Work" I have a degree
> > > > in computer science and learned a lot from that book. You don't need
> > > > to degree to read it.
> > >
> > > Hmm, I guess, he was more referring to starting Linux via "loadlin" by
> > > klicking on an icon. AFAIR, we have instructions in our manual about
> > > this...
> > >
> > > Bye,
> > > LenZ
> > >
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