Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: novice pest:win95 over linux? | From | <> | Date | Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:13:06 -0400 (EDT) |
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> >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.
Well I was only speaking from experience and my experience is: the 5 or so times I've installed Win95 on the same hard drive with Linux, this was the method I used and it always worked. Mileage may vary, I guess. Take your chances and see.
Melvin
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