Hello Thomas Fernandez,
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 18:59:17 +0800 GMT your local time,
which was Monday, December 20, 1999, 5:59:17 PM (GMT+0700) my local time,
Thomas Fernandez wrote:
Thomas> Hi Rob,
Thomas> on Monday, December 20, 1999, 6:57:50 PM GMT+0800, Rob wrote:
>>> Will this (installing another Win98 over an existing Win) reformat my
>>> hard disk?
R>> no, it will not. but if you want a clean Thai install, you better start on a
R>> clean disk.
R>> or if you have enough disk space, install the Thai version on a different
R>> partition ... you could even dual-boot.
Thomas> I have enough space. But as far as I know, creating a new partition
Thomas> (fdisk is the command, right?) will reformat the hard disk first. :-(
Thomas> If you have a programme that will partition my hard disk without
Thomas> reformat, please let me know. I would even make an extra partition for
Thomas> Linux. :-)
Thomas> What is the meanign of "dual-boot": having both OS'es run at the smae
Thomas> time?
Thomas, just a suggestion:
Get Ghost and make an image file of your current hard disk. Borrow an
other drive as a temp addon to save to. Normally I remove cdrom and
stick visiting hard disks there as they tend to be at the top of most
small minitowers.
Anyway, one the image is there you can totally repartition your hard
disk.
Note that Ghost can clone partition to image or disk, I would suggest
using the partition to image.
Use that program Alex recomended, try to get it going and if you get
fed up stick that ghost image back in as it was before.
Or make it sit on the second partition after you repartion and stick
Thai on the first.
Just make sure you have a spare disk with that image file till you
donot need it anymore.
Ghost is part of Norton System works and also around as standalone
program. latest version also can backup linux partitions BUT and
thats the clincher, last time I tried it on a japanese windows, it
didnt work...
Forget Linux on the same drives. One mistake and you loose the lot.
Best place for Linux is a drive as hd0 (or first master) and you
windows stuff as first slave. During linux setup you just make the
lilo page (note during setup is the easy way !!!!) to boot 98 by
default).
What it means is that first drive boots, goes to second drive and
boots whatever is set as bootable. If you want to deactivate linux
for a while just switch it off in the bios and it happily will boot
to first slave to goto 98..
You could even use the lilo to boot the second partition with
chinese but in my opinion, dump that chinese as somewhere you will
make a mistake and loose the lot.
I can untangle it but in that case you may get a shock about the
hourly rates (g).
Best regards,
tracer
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