Re: [SLE] Re: More SuSE to Windows

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Jim Osborn wrote:

Ole Kofoed Hansen replies:

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If you find out too late that you don't have a bootdisk, you can boot on SuSE CD#1, type manual at the boot: prompt, and select "Boot installed system" somewhere in the menus. This has saved me a couple of times.

I assume to be able to do that I'll need to make the CD drive bootable?

Correct.

I doubt that it is now, as I've frequently left cds in the drive through reboots, cds like #1 from an installation.

Sounds right.

I'll actually be more interested in the linux machine reading files from the Win95 box. Does that require more than Samba?

Depending on how you want to set it up, you should look at one or more of the following: LISa in KDE 2.1.1 or later smbclient smbmount LinNeighbourhood Regards Ole