Hello everyone!
I have a slight problem. First, a little background: I have two HDDs: 4.3
GB and 1.2 GB on my computer. Earlier, I had installed Red Hat Linux 6.2 on
them, with second HDD entirely as swap space. However, the need arose to
install Win98 as well and I thought I would play around and use cfdisk to
change the swap space from the second to the first. However, I didn't update
any of the references on the swap space and thus, Linux refused to load. I
then re-ran Linux setup, ran fdisk in it and made two partitions in the
first disk: 2 GB (Win95 FAT 32) and 2.2 GB (Linux native). I did the similar
thing in the second HDD: 64 MB (Linux swap) and the rest as Linux native. I
then rebooted without installing RHL.
However, when I tried to install Win98 from the CD, it gave an error that a
disk-compression program has been installed and so, it can't be installed.
Thus, I ran fdisk from the Win98 CD, but it showed the two drives as having
capacity of only 8 MB and 10 MB resp.! I removed all partitions, re-made
them and formatted the disks, but to no avail. However, RHL makes and shows
the partitions properly when I try to install. I installed RHL once more,
with the 2 GB partition as Windows FAT 32. But Win gave the error that not
enough disk space to install. I checked and it is still 8 MB! What could be
the error? How do I totally reformat my HDDs, start anew, install Win98 in
one partition and then RHL? Please help me out here.
Thanking you,
Best regards,
Amit
PS: This may interest you: When I removed all the partitions from both the
HDDs (using DOS fdisk), and I chose boot from HDD, it still started LILO!
PPS: I heard u should use fdisk -mbr or something but neither DOS nor Linux
fdisk accepts -mbr.
PPPS: I ran RHL 6.2 setup and through the fdisk there made both the HDDs
fully Win FAT 32. I then ran format c:, which showed 4.1 GB (Less than
full). When I ran format D:, it showed 10 MB! And E: is my CD-ROM.
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