[UCLA-LUG] adding (gulp!)..Windows

[Clara Wu]

Hi! I am new to this mailing list. But i had done some of the installation
for linux+windoze or linux+ win98+ winnt...

1. you need two boot disks since your cdrom is not bootable.
   follow the direction of Dan to make linux boot disk, for windoze 
   disk, ask other windows guy. they must know it.
2. check your /etc/lilo.conf see if lilo is in mbr
   and run /sbin/fdisk see the partition, make backups for your
   partition info (ie. start sector, end sector, partition ID..)
   in case you distroy it and you can recover
3. Boot from A: put on windoze disk choose with CD-rom support
   and run "fdisk /mbr" it will remove anything in MBR.
4. run fdisk again, make sure your parition is FAT (16 or 32)
   and format c: with windoze's format (i tried other format, 
   will have errors during installation)
5 to cdrom drive run "setup", setup will check your HD and others
  if you find errors, you may do "setup /s" or something, to skip 
  the scandisk check. if still errors, you may need do some dangerous
  stuff, find an expert to help you)
6 after installing windoze, boot from linux floppy, then see your
  /etc/lilo.conf 
  make sure it has 

  boot=/dev/hda <-- boot from mbr
  
and add this line
  
  other=/dev/hda1
   label=win
  
  then do /sbin/lilo -v -v 

and you have dual boot now.

  
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, elliot jordan wrote:

> I installed Caldera 2.3 using the custom installation leaving a dos/windows 
> partition to hda1 (unformatted, no mount point, about 2G in size). I have 
> the CD for Win95 and 98 upgrade but I don't think they are bootable. How do 
> I load the Win 95/98 into the new partition--I need to get to the DOS 
> prompt. Or is there another way to get a DOS prompt from Linux.
> 
> The Linux works well but a few of my apps still require Windows only.
> 
> Thanks for your patience with all my newbie questions at the meetings and 
> installfest..you guys are da best!     Elliot
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