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

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From: Regit Young
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 00:00
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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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