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

well the problem being is that Win95 and NT are very cannablistic.  They
see Linux and eat it alive.. or try to... There are ways of protecting
it..
It's just another "feature" given to us by the all seeing "bill"

On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, newbreed wrote:

> 
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:]On Behalf Of R. Paul McCarty
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> Subject: Re: LINUX newbie /RE: Java on strongArm or in linux?
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> 
> 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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