[plug] win98 install after linux

[Steve Baker]

It looks like setup is about to remove your 'non DOS' partition, which is
obviously your linux partition.  You don't want that.  I think it is
probably trying to 'clean' your disk out and allocate the whole disk to
win98.

This might happen if you just changed the filesystem type from NTFS to FAT32
with the linux fdisk program and told windows to go for it.  Windows might
not properly recognise the partition, since the DOS fdisk program also zeros
out the first block (for some reason...?) when you create a DOS partition.
Try

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1

or maybe boot a windows floppy use the DOS commands for create and format
the partition.

bakes
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bevan Broun <bevanb at ee.uwa.edu.au>
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Date: Friday, 26 May 2000 11:05
Subject: [plug] win98 install after linux


>Im installing a dual boot system for a user. She wanted NT and linux,
>which was prepared, now she wants win98 and linux instead. Ive always
>installed winXX first and then linux second. Now I dont want to redo
>the linux install if I dont have to but...
>
>Win98 setup doesnt seem to know the difference between partitions and
>drives. The drive has been partitioned under linux fdisk and has it's
>first partion fat32 (was ntfs), it's second partition is linux's root.
>
>the win98 setup is saying
>
>"To remove the non-MS-DOS partition, setup will delete all files on
>your 1st hard drive...."
>
>Does any know if it will really do this or if it will just wipe the
>first partition?
>
>BB
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