Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: novice pest:win95 over linux? | Date | Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:02:26 +0200 | From | Michael De La Rue <> |
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In message <9609142102.AA17635@quix.robins.af.mil>, msmith@quix.robins.af.mil w rites:
>You can install Win95, which will politely write your boot sector, >which then makes it necessary to boot from a Linux floppy and >rerun LILO to fix it. Win95 will leave your other partitions alone, >however so this should not be a problem. >
It is not always true that Win95 leaves the disk untouched. In at least one circumstance it can mess up the whole format info. I think the fix is to ensure that your dos partition has it's first blocks zeroed (seen the Linux+Win95 HOWTOs (both)) but even this didn't seem to work for me.
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