On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Sen Nagata wrote: > at some point around Tue, 17 Feb 98 20:07:11 -0600 > Asher Haig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned: > > > If you set up LILO when you install it, and then tell LILO how to find > > the Windows partition, you can easily do a dual boot. Superior to doing > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > UMS partitions. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > could you be more specific about what you mean here?
It's not clear to me what was meant in the original question by running linux "on top of" dos. If, by this, [EMAIL PROTECTED] means running linux with a filesystem rooted in C:\LINUX under UMSDOS, then AFAIK this is easily installable with Slackware but not Debian. (I've done the former, but wouldn't know where to start the latter.) Mounting UMSDOS partitions is as easy as most things are in Debian; just compile support into the kernel and install the package. So, to answer the original question (I know Linux can be installed on top of a dos partition. Can it be installed on top of Win 95 or NT.), I've not heard of an equivalent to UMSDOS for non-FAT16 filesystem, and that's what's critical. So a qualified yes to W95. Running linux "alongside" MS os's is an issue that's widely covered in FAQs and HOWTOs, with all the booting ramifications. > my experience has been that it really depends on your situation. i'd like > to know if i'm missing out on something fundamental. > > my personal experience has been that being able to use a umsdos partition > under both dos/w95 and linux is quite handy given the limited size of some > hard disks -- i can easily store stuff to use w/ either operating system > w/ this setup. > > i am using loadlin and a custom config.sys/autoexec.bat setup to do > dual-boots, and find this to be quite usable. > > -sen > > p.s. for those interested, details of the set up i'm using at: > > http://www.htp.org/~sen/debian/hu2/install.html I don't see where UMSDOS comes into this. You've got your root on an ext2 partition, but you've kept a dos partition which you probably mount with something like /dev/hda1 /dosc msdos noexec 0 0 in /etc/fstab. Would that be correct? Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
