[ale] Win98 + LILO

[Geoffrey]

Chris Fowler wrote:
> My falut.  I meant to say you can not put windows into an extended
> partition.

No, looking again at your original posting, you did say 'you can not..' 
  I just read it wrong....  Sorry, got up early, and not enough coffee 
yet...

> On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 08:42, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>Chris Fowler wrote:
>>
>>>You can not put windows into an extended partition.
>>>
>>>Here is what I would do
>>>
>>>1) Boot of toms root-boot and fdisk the drives.
>>>   make /dev/hda2 type c.
>>>
>>>3) Boot of win98 CD.
>>>   run fdisk to make /dev/hda2 active
>>
>>/dev/hda2 is not an extended partition????  Am I missing something here??
>>
>>
>>>3) run "format c: /u/s" from the win98 directory
>>>   on the cd-rom
>>>
>>>4) create the directory windows\options\cabs on 
>>>   the newly created c: at /dev/hda2
>>>
>>>5) copy D:\win98\*.* c:\windows\options\cabs
>>>
>>>6) reboot and boot hard drive. You'll get to a c: prompt
>>>
>>>7) cd \windows\options\cabs.  run setup.exe
>>>
>>>8) Take a break while windows is installing.
>>>
>>>Use toms root-at boot to get back to your previous linux partiton to
>>>reinstall the boot loader.
>>>
>>>If /dev/hda1 is linux do this:
>>>
>>># mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
>>># cd /mnt
>>># chroot . bin/sh
>>># lilo
>>># exit
>>># cd ..
>>># umount /mnt
>>># reboot
>>>
>>>Make sure you add a DOS label to lilo.conf before rebooting.
>>>
>>>
>>>On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 07:23, da Black Baron wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 14:30, Jason Day wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:13:39AM -0800, Herman, Izzie wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Here's what I have in /etc/lilo.conf
>>>>>>
>>>>>>other=/dev/hda6
>>>>>>	label=windows
>>>>>>
>>>>>>When I try to boot into windows, it just hangs at "Loading Windows"
>>>>>
>>>>>Can windows 98 boot from a partition other than the first?  I've never
>>>>>tried putting windows on anything other than /dev/hda1.
>>>>
>>>>I've tried it.   And I'm wondering how the hell he did it... 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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