Re: Dual boot with win 98?

[Charles Galpin <cgalpin lighthouse-software com>]

On 31-Jan-99 Ramon Gandia wrote:
> Brett Jones wrote:
>> 
>> I just did a dual boot disk last night.
>> 
>> Here's the list:
>> 8.4 gig western digital hdd
>> fresh install of win98 fat32
>> defrag the disk
>> used fips (should be on the RH 5.2 cd) to split the partition. 1 gig
>> win98 bal. for linux
> 
> I have heard a horror story that I would confirmed.  When you do
> a Win98 install, it uses the _entire_ drive.  

Ramon

I'm not sure about that horror story, but it does not apply in this case. I've
done this too. When you defrag the disk and use fips to split the partition,
the Win98 install stays intact - just in a smaller partition.

No harm, no foul, just a smaller piece of the pie for billy.

Charles