Re: installing win98 after everthing else....
I can answer part of this.
I haven't done anything quite so complex as that, but I did use Linux fdisk
to partition my disk like I wanted it, then installed Windows 98, let it
have its way with my MBR, *then* installed Debian and let LILO lay down a
nice new MBR that boots to my Windows 98 FAT32 partition, which I think is
/dev/hda2. That partition is a primary that's not at the start of the disk,
but being ignorant of all things non-Micro$oft, Windows just sees it as C:
and is completely satisfied with that. DOS fdisk is a little confused by the
setup but deals with it--I can't quite remember--however there's no way you
get partition a disk like I have with DOS fdisk; it's just not flexible
enough.
In your case, I think you should be fine pulling the master, reconfiguring
your partition as FAT32, and installing Windows 98 there, and (I guess) who
cares about the MBR on what will be the slave. Once you put back in the
master, you won't even have to boot from a floppy to change your MBR, as
your master's MBR will have been safe and sound sitting on your desk. 8)
However, I'm not sure how Windows 98 will react when that master is back in
there and drive letters may or may not be remapped. I guess you might try
just real quickly setting up the new partition, booting DOS and formatting
it with /s (being careful to figure out what partition is what!), then set
up LILO and try to boot it, then see how all the drives map. If that boot
drive maps to C:, like it will when the slave is temporarily the master,
then I bet you'll be OK. If not, it may take more thinking.
----- Original Message -----
From: "rich" <rehartma@artsci.wustl.edu>
To: "Debian" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 10:16 PM
Subject: installing win98 after everthing else....
> Howdy all,
>
> I've got a "tri-boot" box - linux, win95 and freebsd... I would like to
> install win98 and eventually erase win95. I have 2 hard drives
> configured as follows:
>
> master:
> /dev/hda1 win95
> /dev/hda2 freebsd
> /dev/hda3 debian root
> /dev/hda4 debian swap
>
> slave:
> /dev/hdb1 extra ext2 primary
> /dev/hdb2 another ext2 primary
> /dev/hdb3 vfat primary
> /dev/hdb5 vfat logical
> /dev/hdb6 vfat logical
> /dev/hdb7 ext2 (/usr) logical
> /dev/hdb8 vfat logical
> /dev/hdb9 vfat logical
> /dev/hdb10 vfat logical
>
> What I want to do is change /dev/hdb1 to vfat, unplug my master,
> configure my slave as master temporarily, install Win98 on /dev/hdb1,
> then reassign original master / slave, put Win98 in Lilo and have a
> "quad boot" box for awhile whilst I get stuff tranferred from win95 to
> win98... my question is, will win98 allow itself to be installed on a
> partition of my choosing, or will it just erase everything and install
> itself wherever it wants?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Rich
>
>
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