Re: Installing the other OS by cp -ax
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 16:06, o polite wrote:
> Some time ago I tried to install the userfriendly OS Windows 98 on spare
> partition. Of course it succeded in rendering my laptop unusable. It took
> me two days to get my system back. This was four weeks ago, so now I'm
> ready for some more pain.
>
> Instead of letting the windows installer put it's teeth in my hd I've tried
> installing the OS by copying an complete installaion from another computer.
>
> I've mounted the other computers C: at /mnt/winc
> and copied it to my empty FAT parition /dev/hda1 mounted at /mnt/hd like
> so:
>
> cp -ax /mnt/winc /mnt/hd
>
> I've entered a entry for windows in lilo like so:
>
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=win
>
> Lilo will let me choose win at boot time. But I will get an errormessage
> that says something like "This is not a bootdisk, replace it with a
> bootdisk and press any key" in swedish.
>
> However my fdisk says:
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 122 979933+ 6 FAT16
> /dev/hda2 123 134 96390 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 135 170 289170 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda4 * 171 730 4498200 83 Linux
>
> Did I miss some magic flag when partitioning the drive?
> Did I get the cp wrong?
> Did HAL think I was trying to replace him permanently?
a solution probably will be putting in a floppy in the win98 machine typing
in sys a: and then in your laptop sys c: or in the past format a: /s or
something also worked....
Then in principle apart from the difference in hardware :), win98 should run.
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