Re: tlug: A Question on Creating Linux Partitions

[jwb@example.com (Jim Breen)]

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tlug note from jwb@example.com (Jim Breen)
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On May 12,  5:38pm, Jason Molenda wrote:
} Subject: Re: tlug: A Question on Creating Linux Partitions
>> Jim B wrote:
>> > Now if there was a way of getting from Win95 to Linux without shutting
>> > down & rebooting.....
>> 
>> I am able to run LOADLIN after I do Shutdown...Restart Computer in DOS Mode.
>> It doesn't *really* restart the computer, it just drops down to DOS.

Curious. I tried that some moons ago, but about half-way into the 
Linux boot there were multiple kernel panics and a general melt-down. As I
recall it, it was in the area of getting at the file-system. Anyway, once
was enough. I concluded that there was a Win95 kernel alive deep down
there still hanging onto things.

>> I think I'm stating the obvious here, but I have a menu thing set up
>> with my CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT so that when my system boots up
>> (it boots into Win95), I can select "DOS", "Linux" or "Win95" with a
>> timeout defaulting to Win95^H^H^H^H^HI mean Linux.

Yes, I knew I could do that, but since my wife and kids are in the
Win95/DOS world (my wife still likes goode olde PCWRITE, but she's
gradually learning Word), it is more harmonious to let the boot go that
way, and I can catch it with an F8 when I want Linux.

Jimmu

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Department of Digital Systems.                  Monash University, 
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