Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:43:20 -0700 | From | Michel Catudal <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC]linux + WIN98 |
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bryan vold wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 08, 1998 at 03:30:55AM -0300, Garst R. Reese wrote: > > Hi guys, sorry to intrude on the wonderful devfs list :), but I need a > > favor. > > I'm buying my lovely wife a ThinkPad 385. It comes with Win98, but I > > want to wean her off to Linux. W98 is installed on 2GB partition and > > there is an empty 1GB partition. It comes with a recovery CD, but that's > > it. No chance for a custom install. Her primary activity will be > > writing, so she needs LaTeX, ghostscript, LyX, and X + Netscape for > > surfing. If anybody has experience with a similar setup, good or bad, or > > can point me to a FAQ or HOWTO, it would greatly help. > > Loadlin+Win95-HOWTO > > > Me, I have a 486 with 20Mb ram, all linux 2.1.115, so I don't know jack > > about W$ > > My real questions are "will lilo work?", > > Not if the filesystem has been converted to FAT32. Use loadlin. I converted > to FAT32 before I read the FAQ. Make sure you read the latest versions of the > FAQ, I'm sure someone will start adding pieces for Win98. For now, basically, > you should be able to apply anything that applies to Win95. > > FYI, a couple of things. FAT32 is very fast, I like it when I _HAVE_ to run > Windows (experimenting with JDK1.2, for ex.) The script at the end of > Loadlin+Win95-HOWTO works great. > > (You CAN use lilo if you want to boot from floppy, -- even with FAT32 -- ... > Been there, done that. But it can be a pain. Lilo would actually be loaded > on the boot sector of the floppy. Technically, you don't NEED to use LILO > from floppy, it can boot a linux kernel directly, with the correct root device > configured with rdev) > > > Can I just move W98 to the smaller partition and have it work? I would have > > to trim it a bit, because all the shit they have loaded takes up 1.2GB. > > Don't know. Might be good to note that the floppies on the IBM Thinkpads have > a bizarre configuration. It was necessary in the past (at least with some of > the distributions) to specify a special parameter to the kernel so it would > recognize the floppy correctly -- something about lines being crossed or > something like that. There is a Linux on IBM Thinkpad FAQ -- > http://peipa.essex.ac.uk/tp-linux/tp-linux.html -- but I don't know if it > addresses issues with Win98. HTH. > > -Bryan > -- > bvold@uhc.com
Partition magic would be the magic solution with the boot manager, no problem with win32 there.
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