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Um, you install Win98 first... just use FDISK next time, beforehand, to
create a FAT32 partition and a Win95 type extended partition. You'll
delete the Win95 extended partition and put a standard Extended partition
there, and put the ext2 partition and swap partitions in.
Just for anyone who wants to do this in the future ;).
- Mike
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On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, albert e martinez eet stnt wrote:
> 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
>
>
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