Re: reinstall windows?

[Sebastiaan <sebas@sacred-key.org>]

Oooops, forgot something. Swapping partitions is not the same as swapping
the disks. For this I used a bios swap in lilo:
other=/dev/hdb1
	label=dos
	table=/dev/hdb
	map-drive=0x80
	to=0x81
	map-drive=0x81
	to=0x80

This swaps the drives on BIOS level, so windows thinks it is on the first
disk.

But then you might still need the story described below.
Greetings,
Sebastiaan

> 
> I first installed linux on /dev/sda1 and installed lilo with standard
> config file, that is for dos:
> 
> other=/dev/sda2
> 	label=dos
> Before you go on, make sure you can boot Linux from a bootfloppy!
> 
> Then use a mkfs.vfat on /dev/sda2 (or in your case /dev/sdb1 or
> something), so dos recognises this as a dos partition and will mount
> it as C. Now boot with your win98 bootfloppy and format the hd again
> with the /S flag, so your dos hd is bootable. Now copy the contents of
> your bootfloppy to your hd and restart your computer, now booting from
> your dos-hd. Now you have acces to your cd-rom and you are able to install
> winsloze. After install, clean your C: root by removing the bootdisk
> files.
> 
> When windoze has finished configuring, you will notice that it has erased
> LILO. Don't worry. You made that bootfloppy, right? Boot with it and
> reinstall lilo, then everything must be working fine.
> 
> Greetings,
> Sebastiaan
> 
> ps: why do you not swap your harddrives in your computer, i.e. make the
> 4.6hd slave and 2.1 master? Linux does not care if it is on the first hd
> or not, windoze is always complaining.
> 
> 
> 
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