Linux+Windows
I have Mandrake 7.2 on my PC but I vvould like to add Windows 95 on as a dual-boot. I’ve tried installing from the Windows CD but LILO just isn’t having it I have seen lots of articles explaining hovv to add Linux to a Windows machine but not the other vvay round! Is there a vvay?
ScottBerry
Yes, but it is not exactly simple. Windows is very picky about vvhere it is installed, and alvvays like being on the first primary
partition on the disk. This may mean that you vvill have to repartition your drive, or move vvhatever is your current ‘/dev/hdal’ to another part of the disk. You’ll then have to edit /etc/fstab to make sure Linux knovvs vvhat to mount. Then, you’ll have to use
dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fdO bs=32 to vvrite your kernel image to a floppy disk so that you can boot the machine back into Linux vvhen Windows overvvrites LILO.
A better option vvould be to backup the vvhole Linux file system on to a CD-R or another hard drive, and install Windows, then Linux, and recover anything you installed or created from the backup.