Re: [OFFTOPIC]linux + WIN98

Michel Catudal (bbcat@netonecom.net)
Mon, 10 Aug 1998 21:44:04 -0400

John Caldwell wrote:
>
> > Partition magic would be the magic solution with the boot
> > manager, no problem with win32 there.
> >
>
> I doubt this is an option in win98, since i've heard you cant boot to dos
> from startup, but in win95 this works fine for me. A left-over dos
> extention lets you define a startup menu in your config.sys and
> autoexec.bat. I cant use lilo because of how my controllers are set up,
> so i use loadlin. Heres my setup:
>
> config.sys:
>
> [menu]
> menuitem=Linux20
> menuitem=Linux21
> menuitem=BeOS
> menuitem=Win95
>
> [Linux20]
> # do nothing
> [Linux21]
> # do nothing
> [BeOS]
> # do nothing
>
> [Win95]
> device=C:\OPTi931\CDSETUP.SYS /T:X
> device=c:\windows\himem.sys
> dos=high,umb
> device=c:\windows\emm386.exe
> files=60
>
> and my autoexec.bat:
>
> @echo off
> goto %config%
>
> :Linux20
> c:\loadlin vmlinuz.035
> goto end
>
> :Linux21
> c:\loadlin vmlinuz.115
> goto end
>
> :BeOS
> call c:\beos.bat
> goto end
>
> :Win95
> #win 95 stuff here
>
> :end
>
> Its pretty handy since beos uses loadlin too. ;) Best of all i dont have
> to spring for partition manager to make it work. If you need more
> information about this, pop open a dos window and type 'help' and look for
> the menu stuff.

It is very dangerous to rely on the winblows partition for your boot.
The boot manager is rather safe because it resides on an independant
partition. If Winblows blows it, so what! boot on diskettes and put
another one. As far as partition magic, it support fat32, NTFS, FAT16
and HPFS. Apparently they now provide a Linux native program to resize
a partition.

Normally the safe way to deal with winblows 95 or 98 is to install it
first after you partitionned. If it was allready installed you just
resize it's partition, make the boot manager active instead of winblows
and put winblows and whatever other operating's system partition you
want.

You could have several completely independant Linux boot, OS/2, a couple
of DOS (including win 95 or win 98).

So far the main differences between win 95 and win 98 are that win 98
crashes more often.
Dos is broken. I have not been able to make MPLABC work under win 98, it
works ok on win 95. It's a dos application using borland's Runtime
library.
They changed the size of the logos and moved the main logo from the root
directory (where?)
Winblows also plays with MSDOS.SYS with very weird results sometimes.
Yesterday it kept rebooting in the dos mode, impossible to go to the
GUI.
Removing winblows garbage in MSDOS.SYS fixed the problem. The average
user would have had a service call to fix that.

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