Matt Rowley wrote: >>Actually, I already have a boot disk because the BIOS doesn't recognize >>the HDD as it is LARGE and in CHARGE (100GB). I know I should have >>installed Windows first, but it wouldn't boot from the WinME cd-rom I >>have, so I figured I could install it from within Linux (and ontop of >>the ext3 filesystem, somehow, as I have my entire drive partitioned as >>ext3 (with 1GB set aside for SWAP). > > > You most certainly cannot install Windows onto an ext3 file system. > Windows is incapable of inherently reading/writing/seeing *nix file > systems (ext2, ext3, ufs, etc).
Ah well. > > Check your BIOS and make sure you have the proper boot order, that might > be why your CD-ROM isn't booting. But it might not be a bootable CD, > who knows. Thats a possibility, but I figured 'cause Windows gets it's info from the BIOS, it wouldn't recognize the HDD either. > > If not, make a DOS boot floppy on another Windoze box and make sure it > has format.com and fdisk.exe on it. The only other windows box I have available is my parents WinXP machine. >Fdisk a new Fat32 partition on the > drive with whatever remaining space you have. Not sure how pissed off > fdisk will be about the ext3 partitions already on the drive. Give it a > whirl. Or, buy Partition Magic, it supports Linux partitions. I might have to get Partition Magic...*sighs* > > Reboot, again to floppy. Then, go to your CD-Drive letter and manually > launch the Windows installer, d:\setup.exe. > > --Matt > > > > Thanks for the help guys, I'm gonna try Win4Lin before I touch Partiton Magic though. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
