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

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From: Regit Young
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:00
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"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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