Re: Who cares just use Linux (Re: How OS/2 Warp Wins Win95 Loses ! ! ! !)

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From: Illya Vaes
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 12:18

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os2-l@mistik.express.net (Mustafa Soysal) writes:
>Yeah, but I want to use IBMs Boot Manager, not LILO.  Besides, LILO
>didn't exist when I tried to do that.  Why would I trust my supported
>software to unsupported software?

It works fine for me with Boot Manager. What to do (while installing?):
- boot Linux from floppy
- use Linux's fdisk to mark the Linux partition type 83 (Linux native)
- install Linux on the partition
- install LILO *ON THE LINUX PARTITION*
	Slackware 2.0 has this as one of four options
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From: Illya Vaes <ivaes@ib.ns.nl>
Subject: Re: Who cares just use Linux (Re: How OS/2 Warp Wins Win95 Loses ! ! ! !)
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