I've done the same thing, except I had to give more room to win98. Anyway, I never had to use the win98 fdisk. I defragged, the booted to a floppy wtih fips on it, which came with redhat 5.1 under dos tools directory, I then repartitioned to the desired amount, read the fips docs. I only made one extra partition. I then booted to the redhat boot disk and installed as normal. The swap partition I made using linux fdisk on the 2nd partition I made. Win98 didn't give any troubles, at all. There is a linux laptop web page, just do a search using linux laptop, pretty easy to find, has a whole of useful info on various laptops, especially setting up xfree, can be quite difficult. The only other thing you should be aware is that the rescue cd that comes with the laptop is likely to REFORMAT the entire harddrive if you use it, I know my does.
cheers
Johann
I just got myself a new notebook which comes pre-installed with Windows
98.
The harddisk came as a 3.2GB partition. I want to break this
into 2
partitions and reformat the partitions. On the first partition,
I want to
install Windows 95 (occupying 500 mb) and Redhat Linux 5.0 (occupying
the
rest :-) ). I can be considered quite conversant with DOS commands,
but the
following response from the notebook got me really stumped.
(1) First, I booted up with a Win95 floppy, and ran the Win95 version
of
FDISK.
(2) I partitioned the stuff, and exited from FDISK.
I obtained a message saying that the fixed disk
is write-protected.
(3) I tried to FORMAT the whole c: drive and the message obtained
is the
same.
What's wrong? I am quite new to Windows 98, so can anyone tell me
whether
Windows 98 does have some kind of protection mechanism on the fixed
disk it
resides? If so, how to bypass it? Or is it a notebook
hardware thing?
Though I have never come across this, I hope it is not some M$ gimmick
again.
Kenneth Hwang
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Johann Kwiatkowski
Spot The Dog Graphics
P.O. Box 79, Moorooka,
Qld, Australia, 4105
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