Re: Dual boot with win 98?

[Eric Goforth <EricGoforth csi com>]

Andy Dalton wrote:

>>>>
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.<<<<

My understanding is that one thing that you DO have to be careful about
are System Recovery CD-ROMs that come with many new major brand name
PC's.  I've heard that many of  these repartition all of the hard drives
in your computer, not just the one that it came with.  So, even if you
have Linux on a separate hard drive from Win9x, you will lose it.