Re: Dual Boot With Win95

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From: Andrew O'Rorke
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 00:00

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In article <30E164D5.73DC@dc.infi.net>, lydon1@dc.infi.net says...
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>I would appreciate other's experience on setting up a dual book with
>Linux and Windows 95.  Does Linux have a standard FAT system.  I was
>reading in my Windows 95 resource guide that it (Win 95) will not 
>dual boot from the hard drive with an operating system that does not 
>have a FAT.  
>
>Thanks for any help,
>Martyn

Martyn,

I installed Win95 on /dev/hda1 and Linux on /dev/hdb1 and use Lilo to choose 
which to boot, and it works fine.  I installed Lilo into the MBR of /dev/hda1 
and have had no problems at all.

Cheers, Andrew
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From: aororke@ncc1701.apana.org.au (Andrew O'Rorke)
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Date: 1995/12/29
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