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RE: LINUX newbie /RE: Java on strongArm or in linux?

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[mailto:]On Behalf Of R. Paul McCarty
Sent: June 3, 1998 6:53 AM
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Subject: Re: LINUX newbie /RE: Java on strongArm or in linux?

Ashley Clark wrote:
>
> > 100M.  Caveat: I believe you need a primary partition to install linux.
> > If each of your os's is using a primary partition, you should have room
> > for one more (IOW: you have three primary partitions and an ide disk can
> > have up to 4). There are several options for booting linux, so that
> > shouldn't be a problem for you (i.e. loadlin.exe to boot linux from
> > dos/win, lilo, whatever boot manager you are using).
>
> I'm not sure about OS/2's boot manager or system commander but if you use
LILO
> as your MBR you can boot off of any partition, primary or extended.  I
believe
> (correct me if I am wrong) that at least OS/2's boot manager allows the
same.
>
> Ashley Clark

Maybe.  I never tried it.  I just remember somewhere in the install it
tells you you need a primary partition to install linux in.  But it may
be assuming you don't have a boot manager.

-Paul McCarty

[PK] There are no partitions on my system. DOS, WIN 3.1 and WIN95 are all on
the one drive, C: Directory. The boot mgr is really just the 'Windows 95
Start-up Menu'. There are a list of options from 1. to... including starting
in DOS or WIN95 (DEFAULT). From *within* Win95 I can go to DOS or run any
DOS or WIN3.1 application. If I remember right, this came about because
originally when I received the P-150 SCSI system, it had WIN95 (with its
scaled down DOS 7 version). But the original DOS 6.x had been deleted after
the WIN95 install. However I needed the full DOS 6.x. So we then
re-installed the old DOS after WIN95. Then we added WIN 3.1. It was a bit
tricky but it worked. Now within WIN95 I can run any DOS based or WIN 3.1 VR
app and return to the 95 desktop when I exit the app.

I'm probably pushing it with the idea of adding LINUX now. But I've always
thought  though that a "computer" should be universal by being multi-OS
capable... be-it BEOS, WIN, DOS, Apple's System 8 or a brand of UNIX. I
suspect getting to the wearable computing stage may lead ultimately to some
sort of universality in personal computing. I guess that's my brand of
politech. =;]

Paul K.
NEWBREED

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