[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux for Windows

[Mark Bickel]

> From: Steve Baek <sandrewz at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Linux for Windows
> To: discuss at ntlug.org

> I haven't seen much success with linux/win boot
> managers.  If something goes wrong with them, access
> to a partition is hindered.  On the linux install, I
> created a start disk (+backup) and start linux that
> way.  WinXX is a dominating OS.  Let it do what it
> wants.  However, when you want to linux, slide in that
> boot disk and your set.

I have a company issued notebook which I am not supposed
install any booter to the mbr. I find the combination of
simple DOS batch files + loadlin + a "LINUX.PIF" file 
allows me to select either Win98 or linux either at startup
(menuitem called by autoexec.bat) or while running Win98. 
A PIF icon on my desktop shuts Windows down to DOS mode and
runs a batchfile which calls loadlin to bootstrap a kernel 
like C:\boot\vmlinuz.

Mark.Bickel at ericsson.com