Re: Dual boot with win 98?

[Ramon Gandia <rfg nook net>]

Charles Galpin wrote:
> >
> > 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.

I think you missed my point.  Lets say you end up with a
drive that has one partition for Win98, and the rest for 
Linux.

Now, lets say Windows 98 crashes and has to be reinstalled.
The rumor I hear is that a Windows 98 install will take the
entire drive, not just DOS partitions; ie, it will repartition
and reformat the entire drive to a single FAT32 unit.

I have no doubt that you can shrink it like you said, but I 
am worried about what happens next if you need to reinstall
98.  It would wipe out all your work.  You should be safe if
you do not need to reinstall 98.

It could be that different versions of Win98 act differently.
There are three:  OEM, Upgrade and Full.

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