Re: New to Linux

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From: Anonymous
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 00:00

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I tried pressing the tab button when I got the boot prompt, it just said
gave me a carrige return and said Linux.... Now what?
Cameron Ratcliffe wrote in message <37BE84D2.EBB0419F@tpg.com.au>...
>seeing as u have lilo installed it should have added you win95 partition to
its
>table automatically.. so next time you boot up and see the lili prompt
press TAB
>and you will see a list of boot options enter in whatever isn't linux.. it
>defaults to msdos which is just the label name.. unless you change it.. um
in
>linux there is a program called linuxconf in there you will see lilo
settings
>which allow you to choose which partition to boot.
>Lab_rat
>
>Anonymous wrote:
>
>> I just installed Red Hat Linux 5.2 with WIN95. First I created a
partition
>> for the new system with partition magic then  I tried it 4 or 5 times to
>> install and each time I got to the part that I needed to make a boot
disk, I
>> put the disk in pressed enter and it just sat there saying"creating boot
>> disk" I waited and waited etc... it just froze at that point.  I then
went
>> throught the re-install (again) and this time chose not to create a boot
>> disk and let the LILO load into the MBR.  Now I get LINUX to boot
>> automaticlly (cool!!) But I can't get back to windows. In fdisk, I can
see
>> both partitons on the drive. Neither one of them is a "Primay DOS"
>> partition.  When I go to PQ Magic, (text mode) from the rescue disk, I
can
>> see the Hidden Win95 partiton. My question is how do I get windows to
boot
>> again?
>> Sincerely confused.......
>> -Andy
>>
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