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? -- o polite