Problem with loadlin NHF

[airhead]

I am setting up my system to boot using loadlin (Since something happened to my boot floppy). I am following this NHF
Multiple OS Booting Without Lilo (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/osbooting/loadlin_win.html)
But when I get down to the part when I create the boot floppy (At the end) it tells me to put the loadlin onto a floppy as well as vmlinuz, an autoexec.bat and command.com.

But they don't all fit on the disk. I am a bit mistified why I was told to put loadlin.exe onto a disk because its the setup program for loadlin.

Am I supposed to put linux.bat onto the disk instead?

[prince_kenshi]

I'm kind of mystified as well. I think loadlin.exe is supposed to work from Windows meaning you could put it on your hard drive. It probably doesn't work with NT though, which may be what you have. You shouldn't need autoexec.bat and config.sys on the floppy. They're irrelevant to loadlin. Just format the floppy as a system disk and put loadlin on it. I believe that should work. And if you don't want to have to type loadlin.exe whenever you boot from the disk, just make your own autoexec.bat and put only that command in it. It's not like you need sound drivers and crap in Dos just before you load Linux.

[airhead]

Yeah, but loadlin.exe is the package that you download. It is a setup program which has a dll file, a batch file and a few text files. I am running Win98. Command.com was on there from where it says 'type: format a: /s' and then it told me to create an autoexec.bat like you were saying so it loads automatically.

The wierd thing is that when I tell dos that I would like to start linux, it goes to run it and then says, this program can't be run in dos mode. Wierd, huh.

[airhead]

Well I must have downloaded a crap *** version of Loadlin before because I redownloaded it again from somewhere else and it had all the right files in it.

[prince_kenshi]

Ha ha, I think that was the Windows version or something. Dos doesn't use dll's. So everything's cool now?

[airhead]

Apart from my mouse being wrongly configured, everything is fine (Strangely enough!)