[H-GEN] Linux+Win95 partition woes

[R Bubko]

Johann Kwiatkowski wrote:
> 
> ........
> 
> > Any suggestions for how I can get the partition looking clean enough for
> > fips to work without killing 95 ?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >       Craig
> 
> I don't know about the FAT32 stuff under linux, but I needed to dual
> boot warp and win95. In order to get this to work, I had to first setup
> the OS/2 boot manager and then installed warp, then win95, followed by
> resetting the boot manager (which win95 tells me exists and that I would
> not be able to use anymore - rubbish)
> 
> I have heard of a lot of people having problems with dual booting with
> win95, esp.
> with warp. I previsously had this setup so that Linux, warp and dos were
> in the boot manager, with no problems.
> 
> I didn't use the FAT32, because it seemed like when it was suggesting to
> convert the hard drive from the old FAT16, it might actully try to do
> the whole drive, something that would have been bad for my data!
You read it correctly, It was going to burn your data with no recovery
possible. MS does not do it the way it did several years ago where if NT
found OS2 it started to reformat the drive/drives then when it was too
late to switch off, it informed the sucker that it found OS2 and is
reformating the drive. This resulted in bloody and heated interstellar
court battles. However, MS got out of it by pointing out that it says in
the text somewhere (probably needed the famous babel fish to translate)
to make backups. 
The saga continues....

Ron


> 
> So one possible solution would be to install a boot manager, but then
> you'll
> either have to get a copy of partition magic or reformat and start from
> the
> begining
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Johann
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