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Wayne Best <wmbest@cygnus.uwa.edu.au> writes:

> Hello world
> 
> I had previously been using windows 3.1 and had a UMDOS linux file
> system on the same drive and booted from a floppy whenever I wanted to
> access linux. I have just upgraded my system and have a 2.1 GB disk,
> half of which is taken up with a number of partitions running windows
> 95. I want to create a 300 MB linux partition and install LILO so I can
> boot up either linux or windows 95 without using a floppy. Is this
> possible with windows 95, and if so, is it a safe option? (I have
> Slackware 3.0)

I am not sure about where W95 would like to live, but to boot Linux
with LILO, the kernel image needs to be completely on HD cylinders
less than 1024.  If you cannot arrange that, you can still automate
the process with loadlin.

loadlin (.com or .exe) is a dos program which loads a linux kernel
image into memory and boots it.  You can set up your W95 to boot
DOS V7 first and use a menu with timeout in your autoexec.bat.  The
kernel image needs to be present on the DOS (FAT) partition.  I had a
setup like that one year ago and it worked without any problems.

Cheers
-- 
Manfred Bartz <mbartz@werple.net.au>
  --- LINUX, live free or die ---