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Article #47085Re: 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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"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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