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Re: [humorix] Duel Boot in Linux [was: Ineptitude ... ]
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What you say about MS's questionable wisdom is very true, I think from memory
that the topic came up during the USA Microsoft trial but I'm not sure if it was
possibly to *prove* the MS does it deliberatly...
Quoting Jeff Buckey <jbuckey@earthlink.net>:
> Pegasus,
>
> I hope you don't mind me calling you Pegasus. ;-)
>
> Anyway I've had a duel boot Win 98 and Linux system for a few years now.
> Only recently was a forced into using Windoze exclusively as I lost the
> hard
> drive that Linux was installed on. So until the hard drive comes back
> from
> the manufacturer, I'll be using my Win 98 install. Duel boot
> Linux/Win98 is
> simple to set up:
> Windoze FDISK should be fine to use to create the partitions. Format
> the
> one you want to use for Windows as FAT32 and just leave the Linux
> partition
> unformatted (no news I'm sure you didn't already know here). Then
> install
> Win 98 first _before_ your favorite Linux dist. is installed. Once Win
> 98
> is installed install Linux to the "Linux" partition and set up LILO (the
> LInux LOader) to boot both OS's. The dist's install of LILO should find
> the
> Windows info and ask you if you'd like to be able to boot the Windows OS
> as
> well. If not it's easy to set up in the lilo.conf configuration file
> (try
> the HOW-TO on LILO found at: www.linuxdoc.org for more detailed
> instructions) . Installing Win 98 _after_ Linux will overwrite the MBR
> (Master Boot Record) and you won't be able to boot the Linux system (in
> M$'s
> infinite "wisdom" they decided no "other" OS would ever reside on the
> same
> machine so they just overwrite the MBR without looking...LILO does not).
> Installing Linux after Win98 will take care of that problem, as every
> Linux
> dist. I've ever used/installed (which is most of them) will ask first
> before
> disregarding the other OS.
>
> As for Corel's dist...I haven't used it yet, but I've heard some bad
> things
> about it. All hearsay at this point, but I'm still up for trying it.
> Might
> have to d/l the $5.00 version you've suggested here. Thanks for the
> info.
>
> As for RH...I'm not a fan of their business practices (though I didn't
> know
> Mr. Gates owned any stock in them). I cut my teeth on RH Linux 4.2 but
> I've
> since stopped using them, because, like I said, I'm not fond of their
> business practices and their ideas of what makes a good dist.
>
> Hope this helps, sorry for the off-topic post...I thought it might help
> some
> people out.
> -Jeff
>
>
> > Corel is giving almost giving away it's Linux. The only want $4.95 to
> download
> > about 500M. If you are on a fast line it's a thought.
> >
> > By the way, Gates owns 4 million shares of Red Hat... Think about it!
> Just a
> > bit incestuous.
> >
> > Does anyone know how to really do a duel boot with Linux. I've done
> it
> with
> > UNIX and XENIX but can't seem to figure out what MS has done with Win
> 98.
> Now
> > that is really scary. Their FDISK suck. It's set up in such a way to
> make it
> > impossible or close to impossible to do a duel boot. Gee I wonder why
> this is.
> > Anyway, I've got an HP Pavilion and its OS sucks even more than the
> regular Win
> > 98.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: paul m <paul@2bet.co.uk>
> > To: humorix@nl.linux.org <humorix@nl.linux.org>
> > Date: Thursday, November 23, 2000 7:23 AM
> > Subject: Re: [humorix] Ineptitude (was Automated Reply from Walt
> Dobrzynski
> > <waltd>)
> >
> >
> > |
> > |I fear all this talk of vampire avoidance may have been a little
> > |premature - upon opening the following email(which somehow had
> > |magically addressed itself to me personally) I felt a shiver shoot
> > |down my spine that could only indicate the presence of evil.
> > |
> > (Mind you I'm not sure about
> > |this Red Hat stuff - I mean red that's the colour of that evil Santa
> > |guy isn't it.)
> > |
> > |Paul M
> > |
> >
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