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Dual Booting with VERY minimal installs

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Calum:
a good enough solution however not quite specific to my needs, sorry to sound ungrateful,

actually the network card currently does not work with any of the systems on the laptop. as i say i have the xircom drivers but am missing something needed to connect to a network. it's probably the fact that i don't have tcp/ip set up in wfwg, so i downloaded it (it's 700k so no problem) and will try that. failing this, i think i'll be getting a serial modem as they seem quite cheap on ebay. can't find a decently priced cdrom drive though, i might have to get my zip100 drive back from storage...

if i get the xircom card operating in windows, then i can download there and flip the stuff over using linux, however i'd rather connect using linux to save me waiting for the download and not be able to use linux in the meantime. in a way it would be better to just get a serial modem and that way both systems would be on an even footing in a way...........

i heard that xircom used to have linux drivers for download, but not anymore!

anyway, thank you tux for going to the trouble of all this... i'll be using this thread as a way of continually updating my adventures on this laptop... looks like i have a lot to get through though.

edit - also i tried to use lilo for slackware 3.5, and also the lilo from the basiclinux page, and neither will do anything other than load linux. admirable yes, but if i try to add windows in the config file and then update the mbr, it will either just load linux all the same, or hang saying 'unexpected eof'.

so i am still booting into DOS and using loadlin. luckily i edited the autoexec.bat so that the first DOS prompt looks like a bootloader, giving you the option of 'win' or 'linux'. i'd prefer lilo to work though.

[ November 30, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

KernelPanic:
Grab GRUB from a more recent version of slackware.

Calum:
i just got X to work!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks to void main telling me about the 'split' command, i can now get files larger than 1.4MB onto the new (old) laptop! great! xwindows is now on there, i am about to install gcc and next i'll be putting icewm on too...


 :D

voidmain:
You could also have used "tar" to span multiple floppies. See the "-M" parameter:

http://www.gnu.org/manual/tar/html_node/tar_137.html

KernelPanic:
Hmm Calum, my old DOS disks are on 5-1/4 inch floppies lol. Will the version of DOS on the Windows 95 CD work? Or would freedos or DR-DOS work?

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