[plug] win98 install after linux

[Len Bird]

Congrats on working out a fix. My contribution may not now be
relevant to you, but my experiences are that if Windows98 gets half
a chance it grabs everything in sight and makes it FAT-32. I suspect that
NT4 with ntfs will do the same thing.  I got around my problems with
Windows98 (FAT 32) in situ was to use Partition Magic to convert the
Windows partition to FAT 16 which does not seem to be do any harm other
than to take up a little more Hard Disk space. I think you do likewise with
the NT ntfs partition, and from that point on everything behaves itself.
You might have to do a backup of the Linux partition as a safety measure
whilst all this is going on as my version 3 Partition Magic is a bit rusty
about Linux.  The latest version 5 P-Magic may very well handle it better.

Regards,   Len Bird

Bevan Broun wrote:

> 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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