Thanks, guys and gals, for answering my questions. I finally got
Linux and win98 on the same HDD. I had to install Linux first so it could
claim it's turf on the HDD. The remaining space was detected and
claimed by win98.
The replies from this list and the HOWTO's on my machine said to
install win95 first then Linux. There is a differance between win98 and
win95. It doesn't let you choose the size of it's partition. It takes the
whole HDD or all the unallocated space. So I installed Linux first, so,
it could get it's share of the HDD.
Expecting win98 to overwrite the MBR, I reinstalled Linux after
the win98 instalation so that I could put LILO back in the MBR. This is a
clumsy way to install two operating systems but I couldn't come up with
anything else.
After all this, the only way for me to boot Linux is from the
installation CD. Win98 named it's partion C. My bios recognizes C as a
HDD. I suspect that this is the reason why I can't get Linux to boot off
the HDD. The bios or whatever doesn't think hda* is bootable even though
I've used fdisk to make it bootable.
Linux fdisk sees these partitions: hda1, ext2; hda2, linux swap;
hda3, win95 FAT32 (LBA). Win98/dos fdisk sees its own partition and two
unnamed partitions and makes no mention of their format.
I haven't had any luck with the boot floppies even though I had
YAST make them during installation. This is not a new problem. I noticed
this before I installed win98. I don't know much about this boot floppy
business. I thought it was enough to put in the FD and set the bios to
boot off it.
TIA,
AL
