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Re: linux installation on multi OS system



On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Yedidya Bar-david wrote:

> Hi
> 
> If you want, you can boot linux without lilo.
> Copy loadlin.exe (should be on your CD somewhere), and your kernel
> (should be in /boot/vmlinuz or something) to your windows ME, than,
> when you want to boot linux, do
> loadlin <kernel> root=<your root file system> e.g.
> loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6

The problem with that is that It's possible that Windows ME does not have
a DOS mode and thus cannot run loadlin. It appeared on Slashdot once so
I'm not absolutely sure about that fact.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish



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