Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2009 mails)

[jack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jack Malone)]

well win95/98 likes the to installed in the 1st partition from what i have 
tried in the past or it needs to be installed 1st then linux after that.

jack

At 09:16 AM 9/15/2000 -0400, Michael Galloway wrote:
>ok ...
>
>i left 4GB of free space at the end of my disk after installing linux. i have
>three primary partitions and free space at the end:
>
>/dev/hda1       /boot
>/dev/hda2       swap
>/dev/hda3       /
>free space
>
>i run the NT installer and NT formats an NTFS filesystem as C: on the free
>space, and copies a bunch of system files there. then it asks me to reboot the
>system with no diskettes or the cdrom in. it says setup will continue when the
>system is restarted. so i booted linux again and configured /etc/lilo.conf to
>be:
>
>boot=/dev/hda
>#compact       # faster, but won't work on all systems.
>linear
>vga=normal
>read-only
>prompt
>timeout=100
># End LILO global Section
>
>image = /boot/vmlinuz_2.2.17
>   root = /dev/hda3
>   label = 2.2.17
>
>image = /boot/vmlinuz
>   root = /dev/hda3
>   label = linux
>
>other = /dev/hda4
>   label = dos
>   table = /dev/hda
>
>
>and i reran lilo
>
>when i try to boot dos at the lilo prompt, it says its booting dos and hangs
>there.
>
>is there a procedure around for installing winnt or win98 after installing
>linux? it can't be that hard ....
>
>-- michael
>
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