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

[Tyson Rogers]

Are you sure that this procedure will leave the Linux partitions intact? In my
experience the Windows installation routine does not request any partition
information and I think that by default it repartitions the whole hard drive
before installation occurs. Maybe I'm wrong and that only applies to the case
when the first partition is unformatted instead of pre-formatted as Fat16 or
Fat32. In any case, this discussion assumes that the partition that was
prepared for Windows installation is /dev/hda1.

Tyson.
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Tyson Rogers
Dept. of Biostatistics, UCLA
tysonr@ucla.edu

On Mon, Apr 17 2000 at 01:59:25PM, Clara Wu wrote:
> 
> 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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