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Article #47049Re: CAN you have a Win95-FAT32, WinNT and Linux multibooot system?
From: ochre small
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 00:00
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Add ma to the end of it, mix with a solid lump of Red Dwarf watching, and you get a generic curse/swearword for the last living human and his companions, 3 million years into the future, in what I consider the funniest show on TV. Dave reddwarf@octa4.net.au Regit Young wrote in message <36A40CDF.3ACF25E8@wantree.com.au>... >"smeg" ??? If this mean something bad, pls ignore the rest ........ > >If you mean what I'm running: >1.) Linux, >2.) FreeBSD, >3.) Unixware7, >4.) Solaris 2.6 (x86), >5.) OS/2, >6.) NT Server, >7.) Win95, >8.) MSDOS 6.2, >9.) MacOS 8 via FUSION. > >If I can get my hands on BeOS, NeXTstep and the "no-longer-supported" i386 >AIX, it will 12 .. : ) > >ochre small wrote: > >> I just gotta ask.. 9 OSs? >> what the smeg are you running??? >> Dave >> reddwarf@octa4.net.au >> >> Regit Young wrote in message <36A31EBB.2F68B12F@wantree.com.au>... >> >a wrote: >> > >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I'm looking at making my currently single boot, Win95 PC multiboot with >> the >> >> above OSs. >> >> I understand that if I use the NT boot manager, I can't use FAT32 for my >> >> Win95 partition. >> >> If I use LILO, or some other Linux boot manager, instead, can I have >> >> >> >> (a) All three OSs living happily together, AND >> >> (b) The Win95 partition to be FAT32? >> >> >> >> Thanx for any advice. >> > >> >Yes, lilo most definitely boot into these... for NT boot loader, do a >> search >> >for "bootpart" which will do everything for you. Or, you can copy the boot >> >sector of Linux partition to a file and manually edit boot.ini, using "dd >> >if=/dev/hda3 of=/linux.bin bs=512", assuming that your linux partition is >> >/hda3. >> > >> >I used the above method and now booting into 9 OSes on my box. However, I >> >would recommand "bootpart" if you not comfortable with dd or editing >> boot.ini. >> > >> >Regit >> > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,4794bcd3d9b3c353 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: "ochre small" <reddwarf@octa4.net.au> Subject: Re: CAN you have a Win95-FAT32, WinNT and Linux multibooot system? Date: 1999/01/20 Message-ID: <aIbp2.220$7g1.7959@nsw.nnrp.telstra.net> X-Deja-AN: 434659648 References: <77umb2$qr5$1@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net> <36A31EBB.2F68B12F@wantree.com.au> <6LPo2.188$U41.5423@nsw.nnrp.telstra.net> <36A40CDF.3ACF25E8@wantree.com.au> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telstra.net X-Trace: nsw.nnrp.telstra.net 916801414 203.30.39.40 (Wed, 20 Jan 1999 14:03:34 EST) Organization: Telstra Big Pond Direct NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 14:03:34 EST Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux