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

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From: ochre small
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:00

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