This must seem like a misdirected plea.
I would appreciate any help you gurus out there
can muster.
I recently installed Linux on my laptop. I bought
a new, larger drive and managed to install Red Hat
without a hitch. I have got most of what I had had
before, and it didn't take that much time.
By installing a larger drive, I had planned to add
Windows -- and promised my wife to do so -- so
that she would be able to access MS Office stuff.
Only I can't seem to be able to install Dos or
Windows. Every time I boot with a Dos bootable
diskette in the floppy drive, I either get an
error message, missing operating system, or
nothing happens (the floppy drive makes noise, the
hard drive indicates activity, and then nada.
When I was able to get a A:\ prompt, I ran
Dos FDISK to create a primary partition,
and typed in FDISK /MBR, but I wasn't able
to get the A:\ prompt again.
I created a Linux boot diskette and boot from a
floppy, but I must've damaged the part of the
hard disk that allows Dos to get it's initial
instructions (the MBR?)
When I did get the Dos prompt, it was after
issuing the Linux command:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1
which I read would help to 'reset' the
MBR, or something like that.
I would appreciate any help in finding out
how to proceed. I've read/glanced through
BootPrompt-HOWTO, Bootdisk-HOWTO, MultiOS-HOWTO,
>From DOS/Windows to Linux HOWTO, and read through
the relevant sections of
Welsh&Kaufman's Running Linux, 2nd ed.
(O'Reilly) and Kofler's Linux: Installation,
Configuration & Use, but I'll be darned if I
can't seem to figure this one out!
I challege Lawson, Ray and you other gurus
(you know who you are!) to help me solve this :-)
tia
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