RE: [SLE] Dual Booting Win95/9.1
Why are you stil interested in win95 when there are better,more scalable alternatives?I think you could do better with 2000 or xp. Paul. -----Original Message----- From: Lucky Leavell [mailto:susemisc@UniXpress.com] Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 4:23 PM To: [SLE] Subject: [SLE] Dual Booting Win95/9.1 I know I should install Win95 first, then SuSE BUT, due to conditions beyond my control, all I could do was leave a 2Gb partition empty for future Win95 instllation. I went ahead and installed SuSE 9.1 using the Grub boot manager. When I install Win95, it will replace Grub, right? Question: Can I just restore Grub and have dual boot capabilities back or must I start over? It would also be nice to be able to mount the FAT32 parttion in 9.1. Thank you, Lucky Leavell -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
-----Original Message----- From: Lucky Leavell [mailto:susemisc@UniXpress.com] Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 4:23 PM To: [SLE] Subject: [SLE] Dual Booting Win95/9.1
I know I should install Win95 first, then SuSE BUT, due to conditions beyond my control, all I could do was leave a 2Gb partition empty for future Win95 instllation. I went ahead and installed SuSE 9.1 using the Grub boot manager.
When I install Win95, it will replace Grub, right?
Question: Can I just restore Grub and have dual boot capabilities back or must I start over? It would also be nice to be able to mount the FAT32 parttion in 9.1.
You're on the right track, first Suse (mainly to set up the disk partitions) then Windows (any flavour but tell it which partition to stay in) then Suse again to put GRUB back. Some windowses can be told to put the boot record in their own partition, but most will say "I'm the only OS here", and vomp your MBR. So to put it back: boot off the Suse CD and do a "Boot installed system". You should get back into your Suse system. Run YaST2 : System : Boot Loader Setup Check that it has spotted your Windows system and add that if it hasn't. Use "chainloader" ask for details. Choose "Replace code in MBR" and tick the box to make it "Replace /dev/hda with Generic code" Or easiest would be to do a Suse install on the second pass as it will spot the windows partition and set up GRUB automatically. BTW: Suse installed over any FAT32 based windows can resize windows and fit itself in automatically. Suse 9.0 is supposed to do that on NTFS but couldn't the one time I tried it. Also I prefer that hda1 be a small (32Meg) ext2 /boot partition and Suse won't do that for you. Hope this helps, michaelj -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166
Is 9.1 able to write to NT File Systems? I don't think 9.0 can. Also if you have Windows 95, why not use it? It's fast and works well, though of course not as stable as 98 onward. I don't see any reason not to be able to restore the boot loader, by booting your SuSE with the boot CD, and then telling Yast to restore the boot. I have done that on SuSE 7.3. I'm old fashion and use Lilo though. ---Jim On Monday 07 June 2004 01:11, you wrote:
Why are you still interested in win95 when there are better,more scalable alternatives?I think you could do better with 2000 or xp. Paul.
-----Original Message----- From: Lucky Leavell [mailto:susemisc@UniXpress.com] Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 4:23 PM To: [SLE] Subject: [SLE] Dual Booting Win95/9.1
I know I should install Win95 first, then SuSE BUT, due to conditions beyond my control, all I could do was leave a 2Gb partition empty for future Win95 instllation. I went ahead and installed SuSE 9.1 using the Grub boot manager.
When I install Win95, it will replace Grub, right?
Question: Can I just restore Grub and have dual boot capabilities back or must I start over? It would also be nice to be able to mount the FAT32 parttion in 9.1.
Thank you, Lucky Leavell
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