Re: reinstall windows?
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Dale Morris wrote:
> I want to reinstall windows on a computer I've been using linux on. (I'm
> going to give it to my mother-in-law). I have an old OEM copy of win95,
> of course I have no cd-rom driver disks and I have the 'upgrade version'
> of win98 and a windows 98 startup disk.
>
> The computer has a 4.6hd master and a 2.1hd slaved to it. I would like
> to make it a dual boot machine using linux on the 4.6 drive and windoze
> on the 2.1 drive.
This must be possible. I have done something like that on my own computer
(but I can not remember how, so I am just guessing now).
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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