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Re: Install Win95 with Linux



On Tue, 12 Dec 1995, Yew-Han Hee wrote:

> > Does anyone know how to install Linux on a PC with Wndows 95?
> > There is no DOS 6.2.2 and no windows 3.1 and Win95 boots
> > automatically when the PC is turned on.
> whole hard disk for Win95, you have to defragmentise your FAT 
> partition, and use a tool call "FIPS" to shrink your FAT partition to 
> create sufficient space for Linux. 

I have done it.

Please, boot DOS from a diskette, version < 7, and run Norton's Speed 
Disk, or even DOS's defrag.

After running WIN95 defrag, I noticed that it defragments again and 
again, if I restart it. The moment WIN95's defrag finishes the defrafg 
process, WIN95 starts its tricks again and before you manage to reboot it 
is defragmented again.

So: Run defrag from an old DOS boot diskette, run FIPS, and after you 
install Linux, install LILO, and make an entry to run WIN95, refering to 
it as a DOS boot partition. It will work, it worked for me.

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