[ale] Win98 + LILO

[Chris Fowler]

My falut.  I meant to say you can not put windows into an extended
partition.
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 08:42, Geoffrey wrote:
> Chris Fowler wrote:
> > You can not put windows into an extended partition.
> > 
> > Here is what I would do
> > 
> > 1) Boot of toms root-boot and fdisk the drives.
> >    make /dev/hda2 type c.
> > 
> > 3) Boot of win98 CD.
> >    run fdisk to make /dev/hda2 active
> 
> /dev/hda2 is not an extended partition????  Am I missing something here??
> 
> > 
> > 3) run "format c: /u/s" from the win98 directory
> >    on the cd-rom
> > 
> > 4) create the directory windows\options\cabs on 
> >    the newly created c: at /dev/hda2
> > 
> > 5) copy D:\win98\*.* c:\windows\options\cabs
> > 
> > 6) reboot and boot hard drive. You'll get to a c: prompt
> > 
> > 7) cd \windows\options\cabs.  run setup.exe
> > 
> > 8) Take a break while windows is installing.
> > 
> > Use toms root-at boot to get back to your previous linux partiton to
> > reinstall the boot loader.
> > 
> > If /dev/hda1 is linux do this:
> > 
> > # mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
> > # cd /mnt
> > # chroot . bin/sh
> > # lilo
> > # exit
> > # cd ..
> > # umount /mnt
> > # reboot
> > 
> > Make sure you add a DOS label to lilo.conf before rebooting.
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 07:23, da Black Baron wrote:
> > 
> >>On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 14:30, Jason Day wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:13:39AM -0800, Herman, Izzie wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Here's what I have in /etc/lilo.conf
> >>>>
> >>>>other=/dev/hda6
> >>>>	label=windows
> >>>>
> >>>>When I try to boot into windows, it just hangs at "Loading Windows"
> >>>
> >>>Can windows 98 boot from a partition other than the first?  I've never
> >>>tried putting windows on anything other than /dev/hda1.
> >>
> >>I've tried it.   And I'm wondering how the hell he did it... 
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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