[ale] Boot FUD Question (Was: Re: [ale] Stupid M$ windows ...)

Jonathan Glass jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu
Wed Aug 14 10:02:22 EDT 2002


At 09:56 AM 8/14/2002 -0400, John Mills wrote:
>ALErs -
>
>On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Ron Nottingham wrote:
>
> > Yes, there is a 95c.  It's a cross between 95b and 98.  I think it is
> > better than 95b.  I'm not a fan of 95, I prefer 98SE.  Works much
> > better, IMO.  My preferences for Windows?  XP Pro, 98SE, XP Home, 95c,
> > 95b, 98, 95, 3.11, 3.1, 3.0, 2.0, ME.  I prefer Linux to any of those,
> > though.  BTW, I've had 98SE installed on one machine since day 1 that SE
> > came out, and it hasn't given the BSOD, had to be reinstalled, crashed,
> > locked, anything, it just keeps chugging along.
>
>I'm about to give up on my old 13-fd set of Win95 due to fragility when I
>install new applications, and 3-hour _attended_ installation time!
>
>I vaguely recall some bad language about setting up dual-boot Linux/Win98
>systems when it first came out. Are there any tricks or special
>considerations to this? Will 'lilo' work, or do I need 'grub'?
>
>Thanks for any guidance.
>
>  - John Mills
>
>
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Lilo works fine...just install Win98, then linux.


Jonathan Glass, RHCE, Linux+, Network+, A+, MCP
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Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience/BME
Georgia Institute of Technology
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