🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: aus.computers.linux
Article #47049

Re: CAN you have a Win95-FAT32, WinNT and Linux multibooot system?

#47049
From: ochre small
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 00:00
68 lines
2725 bytes
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
>> >
>
Technical Details
Message-ID: <aIbp2.220$7g1.7959@nsw.nnrp.telstra.net>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail
References: <77umb2$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>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
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