[H-GEN] Multiple booting....
Christopher Biggs
chris at stallion.oz.au
Mon Jan 19 17:32:58 EST 1998
Michael Anthon <anthonm at ats.com.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:
> I have decided that I wish to be able to boot either Linux/NT or 95 on my
> machine. NT for work, 95 for games and Linux for educational purposes.
>
> Current situation is set out below.
> Now, I do not wish to re-install NT, so if I can do this without having to
> do that, I would be most happy. I am quite prepared to repartition the
> second drive and partition the remainder of the primary drive any way that
> is required. The 610 MB free on the secondary disk actually used to be a
> Linux install (not that it really matters)
>
> I am not even sure if it possible to install windows 95 given this
> configuration, any suggestions (constructive ones) on this area would be
> appreciated. What's the best way to get to where I want to be from where I
> am now ??????
>
>
Make your IDE slave the master for a day. Install '95 on it. Change
it back to being slave.
Use LILO or GRUB to boot.
Chainload the any_d.b LILO bootloader, which fools the BIOS into
swapping the hard-disks for DOS boot. You can do this in GRUB too,
AFAIK.
More details in the LILO doco.
Chris.
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