Hiding from Windows98 should be fairly easy as it is rather an old windows. And i noticed during mandrake installation that it does have hidden FAT among the options for the file system. I have though not tried to see if how it performs. I am using XOSL as my boot loader which come with Ranish partition manager and i can install windows2k on the third partition while the first two partitions are FAT or NTFS! I however do not use hidden fat (it may work though, but i don�t remember what was the problem). I record the first two partitions as linux type using RPM even though they are windows type! This way is guaranteed to work for me. Windows98 is older and i think hiding FAT partitions is very likely to work. So if it was me, the first way i would try is using Mandrake partition manager to hide the first two windows partitions and write the setting to the MBR. Then i would start installing Windows98. I should repeat that i have not tried this myself before, but the Mandrake 9.2 partition manager seems very reliable (it was not the case for Mandrake 9.0 to my opinion).
Regards, Ramin On January 12, 2004 09:45 pm, Joe wrote: > A friend has a laptop, which has XP in the first partition. When I > installed mandrake, I created a small fat32 partition between XP and > mandrake, with the intent of putting 98 in there for some legacy app he > wants to use (something for working with an old version of windows CE > that doesn't run under XP, havn't tried it under wine...yet). Did a > quick search on google and found this page: > http://www.vamos.de/english/bootman2.html#dos > It is an OS2 tool that can hide a primary partition from windows so that > it sees the second partition as c: > > Is there a way to do this with lilo or grub? > Is there an easier way? > > TIA for suggestions. > > Joe.
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