On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 02:11, Dennis & Sue wrote: > Merry Christmas All. > Here is my situation : > I have loaded Windows 2000 on 20 gigs, And Mandrake 9 on 20 gigs. ( One > Harddrive ). The Windows setup went South ( trashed itself almost immediately > ). The Mandrake setup is solid ( surprise, surprise ). > I've decided that I want to dump Windows 2000, and replace it with Windows 98. > When I do this, It will ( probably, I don't know for sure ) rewrite the boot > record and I will lose access to Mandrake. > The only way I know how to regain access is to reload / ( I am an unashamed > Newbie ). > I know there is an easier way, and I really like my current setup. > Any suggestions ?
No reloads. Dig this: Take the Win98 boot disk and boot with it - but don't let it install Windows just yet, use FDISK to change the ACTIVE PARTITION to the partition that had Win2k on it (make sure you remember which partition was originally set active for your MDK boot!). After you set the partition to ACTIVE, reboot - STILL with the Win98 disk in. Once again, don't load Windows, but use FDISK to delete then recreate the Win2k partition so that it is not a Win98 VFAT partition. Don't worry about setting it as active - let it - so that you can complete the Win98 install without problems. Once the partition is recreated, format the partiton for Win98. Now continue with your Win98 installation. After the installation is done (and you're happy with it's stability - or instability as the case may be), boot up once more with the Win98 boot disk, and use FDISK to set the ACTIVE PARTITION back to the MDK boot partition (probably the smallest partiton on the drive - shown as a NON-DOS partition - depending on how y'all partitioned it). Reboot - and you should now see your MDK boot screen. Login to MDK as you normally would - once logged in, open up a term and run lilo at the prompt - it will rebuild/readd the Windows partition to your boot menu. You're done. -- Thu Dec 26 06:15:01 EST 2002 6:15am up 21:00, 5 users, load average: 0.10, 0.25, 0.32 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | k�hn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen k�hn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting Coralament*Best Gr�tens*Liebe Gr��e*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn What the hell is it good for? -- Robert Lloyd (engineer of the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM), to colleagues who insisted that the microprocessor was the wave of the future, c. 1968
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