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Message from Steven
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monz wrote:
>
> > Configure your computer to boot to a DOS menu.
> 
> How do i do that? 
> 
> It was set up originally to boot only into
> Windows 95. If i set /dev/hda1 as the active
> partition, that's what it does.

THe first step is to stop Windows 95 automatically
booting.  You want it to give you a DOS prompt.  
>From there you can execute "win" to start Windows.
Or execute a loadlin command to start Linux.  
Or execute any DOS command or bat file (eg menu).

To stop Windows auto-booting, do this:
(1) boot Linux
(2) mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
(3) cd /mnt
(3) edit MSDOS.SYS
(4) change BootGUI=1 to BootGUI=0
(5) be careful not to add any extra characters
(6) exit, umount /mnt, reboot 

Now when you boot Windows, you will get a prompt.

Cheers,
Steven