RE: linux 4.0

[David Sugar <dyfet@tycho.com>]

>The only way i know if is to find the minor, minor version number once
>it is loaded, which is buried somewhere in the registry.... but that
>does most people no good whatsoever....
 
>If anyone knows of a better way, i would be interested!
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I don't have a Win95 "B" to check with, but it might be so listed in the "Control Panel" "About Windows" item.
 
>Also, if you dont want to gamble on LILO screwing up you boot sector
>(either cause it goofed or cause you goofed), i heard a rumor that
>LODLIN will work from Win95 provided it is run from outside of the
>GUI... if anyone cares to confirm this, i would be interested...
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Or in worst case, just create one of those "shortcut" items that runs in dos mode using the current config.sys, etc.  I recall when I played with loadlin a long time ago, I was able to get it to run as a clean clickable icon this way.  Of course, everyone needs a truelly useful Icon in Win95 to escape out of it!!!

There is one advantage to loadlin worth considering over lilo.  If you have esoteric hardware that only has DOS (or Windows) drivers to initialize it (such as the "sound card" portion of a M/Wave, or perhaps even the newer SB32), you can do so in DOS (or Windows), then cut to Linux, and, in some cases, use the "emulated" or soft-"configured" device.  This does not generally work for soft modems such as the M/Wave modem (though it probably would work for the Sound Blaster emulation of a M/Wave), because the modem requires device driver interraction to load overlay code on the fly for the emulated device depending on connection type, and the even cheaper and more disgusting "Winmodems" require resident code to remain intact since they only exist as a VxD devices.  And of course if one is doing specialized work with multi-port telephony boards, it is usually easier to establish initial config under the dos loader and then run loadlin...



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