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
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