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Re: Install Win95 with Linux



GEVALD!

Dos Defrag will, in some cases, destroy the VFAT entries.

--- On Tue, 12 Dec 1995 16:21:18 +0200 (IST)  Arik Baratz 
<arikb@ccarik.technion.ac.il> wrote:

>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.
>
>--------------------------------------------- ....- --.. ----. -.. --. .
>            Arik Baratz, Regularus Studentus, iNTP, 4Z9DGE
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>
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