gjhicks
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Posted: April 29 2004,06:37 |
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1) Assumes that the default boot is into MS Windows 98SE, also assumes that you have a copy of the DOS linux booting utility 'loadlin'. The utiilty can be got from: http://elserv.ffm.fgan.de/~lermen/
2) Make a 'ext2' partition, say 400mb. I used Partition Magic
3) Boot from the DSL CD
4) Run 'dsl-hdinstall' and install to the newly created partition, in my case /dev/hda5, I reckon the enhanced install is the go
5) Mount the MS Windows root (or C:\) partition, usually 'mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1'
6) Copy '/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.22-xfs' to '/mnt/hda1/'
7) Reboot
8) Press 'F8' during the MS Windows boot, to get the MS Windows boot menu. Use 'Shift-F5' to get a plain vanilla command prompt
9) Make a directory to hold the DSL boot files and batch file, say 'c:\dsl-boot'
10) Move 'vmlinuz-2.2.22-xfs' (which will appear in the directory listing as 'vmlinu~1.22-') from C:\ root to the 'c:\dsl-boot\' directory
11) Change to the 'c:\dsl-boot\' directory and make a batch file as follows:
@echo off
loadlin vmlinu~1.22- root=/dev/hda5 ro
12) Change back to the C:\ root directory and edit/make the 'config.sys' file as follows:
[menu]
menuitem=win98se, Boot to Windows 98SE
menuitem=dsl, Boot to Damn Small Linux
menucolor=15,1
menudefault=win98se, 10
[dsl]
[win98se]
FILES=40
13) Then edit/make the 'autoexec.bat' file as follows:
@ECHO OFF
goto %config%
:win98se
rem
rem enter here any commands already in the autoexec.bat (probably just the sound card settings)
goto end
:dsl
cls
cd c:\dsl-boot
dsl-boot
goto end
:end
14) When you next re-boot, you will be presented with a menu. In the case above it will automatically boot into MS Windows after 10 seconds. Typing '2' will boot DSL. If you want it to automatically boot into DSL, just change the 'menudefault' line.
I reckon that the above procedure is better than the 'lilo' approach, specially if you use MS Windows more than DSL.
Bye,
Geoff.
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