I have an NEC laptop, which the sole operating system is Linux (Mandrake -release). But I am doing some testing work for a friend and need to install Windows. I do not want to reformat my whole disk, is it possible to partition and format a section of the hard drive. The disk is formatted as follows: swap 66 MBytes / 800 MBytes /root 200 MBytes /home 2100 MBytes My plan: 1) Use cfdisk to delete current /home and repartition as /home (500MBytes) and /dos (1600MBytes). 2) Install MSDos with CDRom driver onto the /DOS partition 3) edit /etc/lilo.conf to point to the DOS bootable partition 4) edit /etc/fstab to add the new partition /mnt/dos and create the directories 5) Install Windows as per normal from the CDrom Problems encountered: a) Upon reboot the Linux system the new partition has a bad SuperBlock and cannot get the MagicNumber. I guess I am not formatting the disk correctly, but suggestions would help. many thanks David Wilson
