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Dual Booting Win98 SE & Linux Red Hat 7

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by freeport

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Ive been intereseted in installing Linux on my PC and these are my first virgin steps into Linux. I was told that most packages are reasonbaly easy to install :), but lilo overwrites the MBR. Upon reading your Q&A I have gathered some insight to which way to go ie. put lilo on the linux partition etc. But is my best option to use loadlin as I want to boot my win98 as default and configure the config.sys to give menu options etc....

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by ann777

Best option is to purchase System Commander and load linux. It creates a boot menu (recognizing your current install of Win98 and adding anything other OS you wish to load later) and lets you choose what you want to use each time you startup yourcomputer.

Almost all operating systems insist on the boot partion being on the active drive. That's why I have my 60 GB drive as one huge partition with multiple OS installed and booted to via System Commander. Works for me.

by marshallkeithusa

I would go ahead and use lilo . . . I have
exactly the same setup on my laptop Lilo
brings up a menu so that you can choose which
OS you want to use and it usually defaults to
windoze in 5 seconds if you dont pick one.
If you find that you don't like Lilo you can
boot from a win98 boot disk fdisk/mbr if that
dosn't work sys C: and you are back to your
win98 boot loader

by freeport

I stuck with lilo and sussed out what was wrong i just used the option lba32 in the config and all booted fine even have my windoze98 booting on default

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