How to use Debian/Linux to back up Win95?

[Citation] Well, at least you need to backup the first clusters of the Windows 95’s boot partition, since the boot in Windows 95 is caused by the hidden “io.sys” file in the root directory. So you’ll need to have this file, plus the boot sector, in the first of your partition.

A simpler way: make a Windows 95’s boot disk, with the option “Create Initialization Disk” in “Add or Remove Programs” in “Control Panel”. I don’t know if the names of the windows are these, because my Windows 95 is in portuguese, but I think you can find it. ;) [End of citation]

Yes, I have done that, but since I’ve never had to rely on it to regen a system, I didn’t know if it would work. I was mainly concerned that with an upgrade CD, I might not be able to do anything with Windows 95 directly and would have to go through the install the old DOS, Windows 3.1 and then Windows 95, but you say that I can use the boot disk to get things started. That is good to know.

[Citation] With this disk you can boot, partition, format, and make your HD to boot. Then, from your Linux partition, you can restore the system from scratch. But beware: the Windows 95’s “fdisk” program will overwrite your MBR, so if you use lilo to boot, you’ll need a linux’s boot disk to use your system, and will need to run lilo again. [End of citation]

I got away from lilo long ago. I use either a floppy or loadlin or sometimes both.

[Citation] Well, that’s all. If my English is poor, excuse. ;) [End of citation]

There’s nothing wrong with your English. I suspect you could teach a bunch of native American English speakers a thing or two. Seems the Internet is a magnet for lousy English from people who should know better.

[Citation] There will be a time in which all the computers in the Earth will be using Linux! Amen! [End of citation]

Thanks, I’ll have to buy a new disk drive and see if I can recover my current system to it. Actually, I have a spare 500 Mb that I might just do it to.

Mr. J

[2nd Level Citation] Well, at least you need to backup the first clusters of the Windows 95’s boot partition, since the boot in Windows 95 is caused by the hidden “io.sys” file in the root directory. So you’ll need to have this file, plus the boot sector, in the first of your partition. [End of 2nd Level citation]

Oops: here I wanted to say “beginning”.

[Citation] I got away from lilo long ago. I use either a floppy or lodlin or sometimes both. [End of citation]

I’m using Boot Control, a nice toy to manage multiple OS’es from one of the debian-users’s subscribers. It’s very good. You already need to put lilo in the boot sector of the Linux partition (not MBR) if it’s in the same HD that you boot, or in the MBR of the other HD, if it’s in another one. Boot Control manages the other OS’es. Try it...

[Citation] There’s nothing wrong with your English. I suspect you could teach a bunch of native American English speakers a thing or two. Seems the Internet is a magnet for lousy English from people who should know better. [End of citation]

But my English isn’t very good. I don’t know many words, and I’ve many problems with verbs times... And I don’t know speak English, only write and read... More or less...

I really prefer Esperanto, the international language. It’s very easy. We need 6 years to know well English (speaking included, but nothing about literature), but only 4 months to Esperanto, including worldwide literature... :-o

[Citation] Thanks, I’ll have to buy a new disk drive and see if I can recover my current system to it. Actually, I have a spare 500 Mb that I might just do it to. [End of citation]

You’re welcome! Bye.

[]'s Alexander Gieg

There will be a time in which all the computers
in the Earth will be using Linux! Amen!

[Citation] Oops: here I wanted to say “beginning”. [End of citation]

I understood.

[Citation] I’m using Boot Control, a nice toy to manage multiple OS’es from one of the debian-users’s subscribers. It’s very good. You already need to put lilo in the boot sector of the Linux partition (not MBR) if it’s in the same HD that you boot, or in the MBR of the other HD, if it’s in another one. Boot Control manages the other OS’es. Try it... [End of citation]

I’ll do that. Thanks.

[Citation] But my English isn’t very good. I don’t know many words, and I’ve many problems with verbs times... And I don’t know speak English, only write and read... More or less... [End of citation]

Mostly more, it seems. 8^)

[Citation] I really prefer Esperanto, the international language. It’s very easy. We need 6 years to know well English (speaking included, but nothing about literature), but only 4 months to Esperanto, including worldwide literature... :-o [End of citation]

I’ve never seen it (Esperanto) used, but it sure looks like a good idea. Too bad that it never took hold.

Thanks again,

Mr. J

[Citation] I’ve never seen it (Esperanto) used, but it sure looks like a good idea. Too bad that it never took hold. [End of citation]

I attached a text I wrote about Esperanto, which I sent to another guy to which I talk about it, many time ago, if you’ll want to read it.

To me, it seems that the only country who don’t like Esperanto is USA. Their delegate in UN has voted against the establishment os Esperanto as the UN’s official language when this topic was voted. Today, Esperanto is used to make easy the translations of official documents in UN, among their many languages, like the diagram below:

Doc. 1, Lang. A ---|                 |--- Doc. 1, Lang. B
Doc. 2, Lang. A ---|                 |--- Doc. 1, Lang. C
Doc. 3, Lang. B ---|                 |--- Doc. 1, Lang. D
Doc. 4, Lang. C ---|--- ESPERANTO ---|--- Doc. 2, Lang. B
Doc. 5, Lang. C ---|                 |--- Doc. 2, Lang. C
Doc. 6, Lang. C ---|                 |--- Doc. 2, Lang. D
Doc. 7, Lang. D ---|                 |--- Doc. 3, Lang. A
                                     |--- Doc. 3, Lang. C
                                     |--- Doc. 3, Lang. D
                                     |--- Doc. 4, Lang. A
                                     |--- Doc. 4, Lang. B
                                     |--- Doc. 4, Lang. D
                                     |--- Doc. 5, Lang. A
                                     |--- Doc. 5, Lang. B
                                     |--- Doc. 5, Lang. D
                                     |--- Doc. 6, Lang. A
                                     |--- Doc. 6, Lang. B
                                     |--- Doc. 6, Lang. D
                                     |--- Doc. 7, Lang. A
                                     |--- Doc. 7, Lang. B
                                     |--- Doc. 7, Lang. C

Imagine this with 60 languages, and something like 100 documents per day? I don’t know how to think this with one translator for each language. Translators between Esperanto and the specified language is a very best idea...

[Citation] Thanks again, [End of citation]

You’re welcome. Again! :)

[]'s Alexander Gieg

There will be a time in which all the computers
in the Earth will be using Linux! Amen!

Attachment: Esperanto - Text in English.txt

The Esperanto is called “international language”, because it’s not spoke in any country. This language was projected by Dr. L. L. Zamenhoff in 1887, as a way of persons around the world comunicate with another persons in other countries.

But you can say: “The English does this!”. Right, but, as an example, here in Brazil, if someone wants to learn English, after two years of study he can read English, after three years he can read and write English, and after four years he can speak English too. Very much complicated, isn’t it?

How Esperanto is better? In the international language, all the rules are simple and practical. There is no exceptions, each character has one, and only one sound. No more the problem of which sound has the “a” character in one word. ;)

All the grammatic is powerfull, but simple. Only 3 pages! Example: all the noun ends with the “o” character; all the adjectives ends with the “a” character, and so on.

The verbs ends with “i” in infinitive. In present form, they end with “as” (no exception). In past form, they end with “is” (no exception). In future they end with “os” (no exception). Example:

“to be” (present/past)    =     “esti” (present/past)

I       am/was                  Mi      estas/estis
You     are/were                Vi      estas/estis
He      is/was                  Li      estas/estis
She     is/was                  Ŝi      estas/estis
It      is/was                  Ĝi      estas/estis
We      are/were                Ni      estas/estis
You     are/were                Vi      estas/estis
They    are/were                Ili     estas/estis

Can you see the advantages? If you know the “beginning” of a word, you can change the end of this word to have more words! With only one word you know more than 10 words!

The main advantage of Esperanto is that it’s easy to learn. In two months you are reading and writing in Esperanto, and with one month more you’re speaking it!!!

But there is another important, ideological, advantage: In the story of the civilizated world, the “world language” was that of the more powerfull country. In the past, “Greek” was the “world language”, after, “Latin”, after “French”, and finally, “English”. If, in future, USA lost its power, and China began to be the “world leader”, all of us will want to learn Chinese? Not good. :(

Because this, Esperanto is called “international language”. Without a country, the language don’t generates “ideological resistence” from anyone. The UN says that countrys must increase the Esperanto learning!

Today, about 2 millions persons say Esperanto around the world. There are millions books, and hundreds of periodics. In Esperanto, you hear more about, say, Zimbabue, in one month, than in one year of CNN, because all the world is considered important, and not only some countrys.

The idea is: in your country, say your natural language. When speaking with persons of other countries, say Esperanto.

But there is “one” country that doesn’t want the Esperanto ascend: USA. This could decrease the USA “cultural power” around the world. :(

That’s all. You can find more informations about Esperanto, including free online course, searching the word “esperanto” in AltaVista. ;)

La sole veran solvon de la problemo de lingvo neutrala!

I guess I understand why the US government might be reluctant to support Esperanto, I sure don’t agree with them. I’d love to be able to wander around the world and be able to communicate in a universal language. Especially one that didn’t have the baggage that English has.

I can almost read it since it appears to have some latin/romantic roots. I speak nothing, but have been exposed at length to French and read/hear a little Spanish.

Not all Americans are like our stereotype, but there sure are quite a few of them. Maybe the Internet will help to expand our horizons.

Thanks for the info on Esperanto. I’ve had an interest in it for a long time, but never large enough to explore. It’s quite difficult to keep a language without using it on a regular basis. I worked in the Quebec for a while and picked up enough French to get by, but have not used it since, hence, I recognize a word or two but don’t remember what they mean. 8^)

Thanks again,

Mr. J

[Citation] I guess I understand why the US government might be reluctant to support Esperanto, I sure don’t agree with them. I’d love to be able to wander around the world and be able to communicate in a universal language. Especially one that didn’t have the baggage that English has. [End of citation]

True. Today I’m learning Esperanto in the ’Net, with a cool free ten lessons’ course. It’s amazingly easy.

[Citation] I can almost read it since it appears to have some latin/romantic roots. I speak nothing, but have been exposed at length to French and read/hear a little Spanish. [End of citation]

Well, Zamennhoff said that he used words of the most europeans languages. As many of them were derived from Latin, I think this explain...

[Citation] Not all Americans are like our stereotype, but there sure are quite a few of them. Maybe the Internet will help to expand our horizons. [End of citation]

I know. When I say “USA”, I’m telling about governants, not people. I most cases, people don’t know what’s happening. Me too. ;)

[Citation] Thanks for the info on Esperanto. I’ve had an interest in it for a long time, but never large enough to explore. It’s quite difficult to keep a language without using it on a regular basis. I worked in the Quebec for a while and picked up enough French to get by, but have not used it since, hence, I recognize a word or two but don’t remember what they mean. 8^) [End of citation]

In the ’Net, there are many newsgroups, many mailing lists, and many online magazines. You can buy the International Esperanto Magazine (or something like this), a must for all the “Esperantizens” on the world. But Esperanto is so easy, that it’s impossible to forget it. It’s like to walk... :)

[Citation] Thanks again, [End of citation]

You’re welcome, again.

[]'s Alexander Gieg

There will be a time in which all the computers
in the Earth will be using Linux! Amen!