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Re: Thanks! It works Linux+Win95+W4W+LILO.

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From: Dimitri Maziuk
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 00:00
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Stanislaw wrote:
> 
> To all those who send me advice, thanks!
> It needed two drives, some rebooting from diskettes, preparing DOS
> partitions with Linux fdisk but now I know that it can be done.
> It remains to be seen how long I will keep Windows95. This software is
> too capricious and too stubborn to teach.

It also overwrites MBR every time you reinstall it (and you will
have to reinstall it) so keep linux bootdisk handy.

> Is NT any better?

Not by a long shot.  A number of wfw/win95 apps don't work properly
in NT, for one thing.

-- 
Dimitri
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From: Dimitri Maziuk <dima@eris.dev.null>
Subject: Re: Thanks! It works Linux+Win95+W4W+LILO.
Date: 1997/04/29
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