Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:31:55 -0700 (PDT) | From | John Caldwell <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC]linux + WIN98 |
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On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Michel Catudal wrote:
> 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. >
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.
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