Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1587 mails)

[halef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Frank Hale)]

Michael Johnson wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Frank Hale wrote:
> > I am running Win98 and SuSE 5.3 on the same box. You need to install
> > Win95 before Linux so that Windows doesn't overwrite your MBR. I think
> > there is alot of information on the net about this. There is even a FAQ
> > on it. Check out
> 
> Not really true. Even if Windows overwrites your mbr you could boot
> S.u.S.E., or whatever, using a boot disk or the cd and then run lilo and
> that would overwrite the boot record ( whether it's set up by Windows
> or not ) and set up the options. So long as you can get to your linux
> partition you can work lilo from there and there's no rule saying you need
> to put the os's on in the order you described.
> 

I remember reading that somewhere in a FAQ about dual booting linux and
win95. I didn't make that up myself.


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