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Re: Help - dual booting Win95 and Linux

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From: Ben
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 00:00
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batman@cloud.net.au (Boedy Ligo) writes:

>I was about to kiss Anna Nicole Smith when jo@eden.apana.org.au broke in and 
>say:
> jo> From: jo@eden.apana.org.au (Joanne Kilian)
> jo> Organization: Australian Public Access Network Association

> jo> In <317320C3.43D8@werple.net.au> RC <raycarr@werple.net.au> writes:
> 
> >Can anyone tell me if it is possible to setup a Pentium to boot 
> >between Linux or Win95 at start up?

> jo> Sure, you can use LILO.  It allows to you choose which partition you 
> jo> boot and you can set a default.  I'm sure it's widely available, but
> jo> holler if you need more info.

>Sorry for butting in :) I just wanna know if there's a possible way
>to dual boot between Win95 in 1st HDD and Linux in 2nd HDD. I don't think
>this is possible with LILO, but is it possible using Linux boot disk?


>Cheers, :-)
>Dark Knight!
>... He's a few fries short of a Happy Meal.
>~~~ Blue Wave/DOS v2.20
Hi there,

Well I have Win95 on my first hard disk and Linux on my secondary hard
drive and I can boot into either, just set up lilo and have two options:
1. Linux 2. Win95 and if you want you can make it boot either of them
automatically or wait a certain amount of time, its all up to you.
--
Ben Thomas   bst@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au

Resistance is futile....
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From: bst@yallara.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Ben)
Subject: Re: Help - dual booting Win95 and Linux
Date: 1996/04/21
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