Do BeOS v5 And LILO Conflict With Each Other?

ghoul asks: "Hi, I already have Linux 6.1 on my hard disk in a separate partition with LILO in the FAT. Now I am planning to install BeOS 5 which according to their site can work out of Win 98 (which is what I have on my other partition) by just double clicking it as a Win application The site also says the way this works is that the OS boots out of a large file in the FAT. What will this do to LILO and is this dangerous? I would rather not try out anything with Be than trash my Win Partition as I have a lot of important assignment work on it."

Comments

Red Hat Is NOT Linux

[Baloo Ursidae]

You may have Red Hat 6.1 on there, but I doubt Linus plans on releasing Linux 6.1 until at least 2014 at the pace they get released...

Re:Red Hat Is NOT Linux

[Zach Garner]

On average, it's the RedHat users that are too stupid to realize the difference between the version number of the kernel and the distribution. Not that most of them know what a kernel is...

^Z

BeOS R5 + Linux ( + Windows)

[nicktamm]

If you choose to run BeOS R5 as a file inside of Windows, it will do nothing to any of your partitions. It is just a 500 mb image (of a BFS partition) inside of the Windows partition (you can also use the image file inside of an ext2 partition, but BeOS can't write to ext2, and as such it also can't write to the image file I believe) that BeOS R5 mounts and runs from. This unfortunetly means that you are limited to 500 mb since BFS apparently can't handle having the partition size changed.

If you decide you need more space for BeOS, or you get tired of loading Windows first, you can install BeOS onto its own partition (I believe that The BeTips Server has information on how to do this, and boot into it directly. There are two ways of doing this:

• Use LILO on the MBR and add an entry for the BeOS partition
  
• Use BeOS's bootloader, bootman, on the MBR and install LILO on the Linux partition

Provided you know how to make a partition, etc. neither of these methods should result in lose of data either. I use bootman as my main bootloader, and it works fine for loading Windows, Linux, OpenBSD, and BeOS. I installed BeOS after the other three OSes, and I had no problems with lose of bootloaders for anything. Of course, LILO also works at doing all of these (if I select Linux, it loads LILO where I can select any of the others instead of Linux again if I want to).

If you have important information on your Windows partition, you should A) back it up, and B) make a rescue disk. If you accidently wipe the MBR somehow and *NEED* to get to your work, you can always do an "disk /mbr" on your Windows partition, and that should allow your computer to boot straight into Windows. With Linux, you can always boot off of a resuce floppy (usually, at the LILO prompt, you type the kernel name, ie "vmlinuz" and then "root=/dev/hdwhatever drive and partition") and just re-run LILO to return the MBR to its previous state of Linux and Windows co-operation.

Linux 6.1?

[Linux Lovah]

www.redhatisnotlinux.org I think whoever wrote this message should check out that Red Hat is not Linux, it is a distrobution of linux with applications. Using Linux 2.2.14 would be more suiting