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Article #47075MISTAKE !!Re: CAN you have a Win95-FAT32, WinNT and Linux multibooot system?
From: Regit Young
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:00
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Forgot about "count=1", the Linux command should read: "if=/dev/hda3 of=/linux.bin count=1 bs=512" Sorry if you've already found out the hard way ... I apologise for my oversight. Regit Regit Young wrote: > > 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 -- Regit Young : regit@wantree.com.au -Windows 95: n. 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit OS originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1-bit of competition. -
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,4794bcd3d9b3c353 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: Regit Young <regit@wantree.com.au> Subject: MISTAKE !!Re: CAN you have a Win95-FAT32, WinNT and Linux multibooot system? Date: 1999/01/19 Message-ID: <36A372A0.73B91BA0@wantree.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 434065596 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <77umb2$qr5$1@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net> <36A31EBB.2F68B12F@wantree.com.au> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Wantree Development Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: regit@wantree.com.au Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux