Sorry folks. I just read it again. I am just giving myself a thrashing.
-----Original Message----- From: Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 15 July 2004 1:35 p.m. To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Help - trashed booting > > 2. added a new hard drive as /dev/hdb. Allowed the W2K windows installer > to format it as ntfs. Allowed windows installation to proceed to install > on that drive (E:\ after C:\ (w98) and D:\ (cdrom). I wasn't watching > most of the time but it eventually said it was completed and would > reboot. [Robert Fisher] I also just reread your original post Nick. Is the paragraph above correct? I did not think you could install Win98 onto ntfs partitions. (I have been wrong before though.) I recall, from the dim dark past, that fdisk /mbr followed by a Windows installation followed by setting up GRUB again got me through a similar scenario.
