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to: WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
from: Russell Tiedt
date: 2005-03-29 08:56:38
subject: w98 & HDs anyway

Hello WAYNE.

25 Mar 05 13:13, you wrote to me:

 WC> ->  WC> No real DOS under your release of Win and the latter will not
 WC> ->  WC> work I'd say.

 WC> -> Installing MS-Windows 95/98/ME/WIN2000/XP first and then Linux has
 WC> always -> worked for me, had success the other way around too, with
 WC> some extra effort.


 WC> Well see there i elected to not speak from experience I don't have
 WC> and never will have.

 WC> I'm through with Windows once and for all.

 WC> Yeah I know you can do it both ways too.

 WC> When last I had 98 on this machine I kept both Tom's root boot
 WC> floppy as well as a boot from DOS mini-Linux installed so I could
 WC> access the Linux partitions so if something splattered I could get in
 WC> and fix it.

That is also a useful approach. 

Russell

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