Hi
"Amit N. Gandhi" wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> 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.
>
Did you update lilo after you change all this partition funda?
> 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.
IIRC, Windows doe snot install on a second partition. Is that the case?
If anything does not work, I hope you have linux running. Run cfdisk to remove
all partitions and then run 'lilo -U' to uninstall lilo. Then reinstall
everything.
Remeber the rule of OS install. Dumbest first. First 98 and then linux.
HTH
Bye
Shridhar
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