Kathleen,
I must have spent half a day formatting and repartitioning. Windows 95,
Windows 98 require
a single DOS partition for M$ Setup to continue. I always make a single FAT
partition just in case. For some bizarre reason, if you have multiple
paritions with FAT32, Win98 will not install.
Roman
-----Original Message-----
From: Kathleen Dickason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 2:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] *delicate cough*
When I had to re-install Win98 recently (don't ask! heh), the installer
checked to see whether the partition had DOS formatting or VFAT or
whatever...
Now I'm confused!
Kathleen, with way too many OSes
>>You do need to configure the partition on which you're going to
install
>>Windows as a DOS partition before you install Windows, though.
>
>--
>>Kathleen Dickason
>>Registered Linux user #182139
>
>Sorry to butt in; you don't really have to configure any type of
partition
>when installing Windows. You can start with an unformatted drive,
then you
>choose if you want to use FAT 16 or FAT 32 for the filesystem (do you
want
>to enable large disk support?). M$ sort of did a number on the public
with
>their goofy naming scheme; 'Dos' is something similar to the bash, sh
or
>whatever you *nix shell you want to think of, but they also named
their
>kernel 'Dos'. Now with newer Windows products, the Dos shell is
mostly just
>a crippled way of doing things from the command line. It's not
necessary,
>but it exits anyway.
>
>Mike (if I totally missed the topic, just ignore this)
>
>
>
