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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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