{"id":388,"date":"2020-08-18T19:23:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T20:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2020-08-22T19:26:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T20:26:41","slug":"this-is-the-page-title-toplevel-221","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=388","title":{"rendered":"Windows9X and Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<title>Win 9x and Linux<\/title>\n<p>\nIf you have a Windows 9x system, you need to be careful, especially if the system was\npre-installed. Many of these systems are installed using the newer <glossary>FAT32<\/glossary>, which allows you to create\nlarger filesystems. However, with older distributions (and therefore older kernels) you will not be\nable to use <command>lilo<\/command> to <glossary>boot<\/glossary>\nyour Windows 9x system. Instead, you will need to configure loadlin to book\nLinux from Windows 9x.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf you have a <glossary>VFAT<\/glossary>\/<glossary>FAT16<\/glossary> <glossary>filesystem<\/glossary>, (or a newer distribution) then you will be able to configure lilo to <glossary>boot<\/glossary>\nyour system, as we described before. However, it is also possible to get Windows 9x to\nboot Linux for you. Both <glossary>Windows 95<\/glossary>\nand Windows 95 can be configured to <glossary>boot<\/glossary>\nLinux using <command>loadlin<\/command> (Linux Loader).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLinload is a <glossary>DOS<\/glossary>\nexecutable which loads a <glossary>kernel<\/glossary>\nimage from a DOS HD (or floppy) and then boots the\nrest of the Linux Operating System from an appropriate root <glossary>partition<\/glossary>.\nYou will find that with many distributions the Linux installation is done from Linux, which\nhas been booted off of the CD using loadlin. If your <glossary>kernel<\/glossary>\nwas small enough, you could even use loadlin to <glossary>boot<\/glossary>\nfrom a floppy, pull your root <glossary>filesystem<\/glossary>\nfrom the <glossary>network<\/glossary>\nand run without a hard disk in the machine.\n<p>\nKeep in mind that you cannot start loadlin once either <glossary>Windows 95<\/glossary>\nor Windows 98 has started.\nTherefore, you need to stop Windows from booting while it is in <glossary>DOS<\/glossary>\nmode. This can be done by\npressing the F8 as soon as you see the message. &#8220;Starting Windows 98&#8230;&#8221;. You are presented with a\nnumber of option and you need to select &#8220;Safe mode, command prompt only.&#8221;\n<p>\nOnce at the <glossary>command line<\/glossary>\nyou start loadlin, passing it the name of your <glossary>kernel<\/glossary>\nand the root device.\nSuch as:\n<p>\n<commandexample command=\"loadlin.exe\">C:\\BOOT> loadlin.exe zimage root=\/dev\/hdb1 ro&#8221;<\/commandexample>\n<p>\nFor more details on multibooting, check out the DOS-Win-to-Linux <glossary>HOWTO<\/glossary>,\nLinux+NT-Loader mini <glossary>HOWTO<\/glossary> and the NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Win 9x and Linux If you have a Windows 9x system, you need to be careful, especially if the system was pre-installed. Many of these systems are installed using the newer FAT32, which allows you to create larger filesystems. However, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=388\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-388","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/388\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}