Re: Dual boot with win 98?

["Andy Dalton" <adalton acm org>]

If you have dual boot with Win98 and anything, inlcuding Linux, if you need
to reinstall Win98, it will **not** use the entire drive.  Windows 98, just
like
windows from the past, requires a formatted (FAT/FAT32) partition.  It
doesn't
do any partitioning for you.

About on-the-fly partition for a dual boot, Partition Magic 4.0 works
nicely.  It
will resize a pre-existing drive to give you extra space for new partitions
and
there are options to format those new partitions linux native and linux
swap.

Andy Dalton
--
Andy Dalton
Computer Science Student
Appalachian State University
Boone, North Carolina  USA

-----Original Message-----
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg nook net>
To: redhat-list redhat com <redhat-list redhat com>
Date: Monday, February 01, 1999 12:38 AM
Subject: Re: Dual boot with win 98?


>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.
>
>--
>Ramon Gandia ==== Sysadmin ==== Nook Net ==== http://www.nook.net
>285 West First Avenue                                rfg nook net
>P.O. Box 970                                    tel. 907-443-7575
>Nome, Alaska 99762-0970 ======================= fax. 907-443-2487
>
>
>--
>  PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!
> http://www.redhat.com http://archive.redhat.com
>         To unsubscribe: mail redhat-list-request redhat com with
>                       "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
>
>