On 7 May, Jeff Noxon wrote: > On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 04:42:23PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: >> > I want to have the ability to dual boot with Debian and Windows 95 ? (I >> > know with Windows NT and Windows 95 this is possible). Will such thing >> > be possible Debian & Windows 95? > >> Absolutely. Lots of us do this all the time. Very easy to configure and >> use. > > It might be helpful to explain how to do it. I know the default > installation will only let you boot off the primary drive, as LILO is > installed into the partition and not the boot sector. It's always easy > to boot from the boot disk made during installation, but booting Linux > off the secondary drive? Is there a graceful and free way to do this > without installing LILO in the primary drive's boot sector? > > Jeff
Sure use loadlin instead. It never touches the boot sector. You don't have to wory about Win95/98 erasing the LILO boot sector info. Just copy your kernel image to some directory on the Win95 partition and run loadlin on it. -- Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
