On Sunday 05 February 2006 11:12, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
What you want and what you can do are not the same things here. Felix told you what you can do, as well as why you cannot do what you are trying to do now. Win98 is DOS, and DOS is braindead. So what you have is like giving a lobotomy to something that is already braindead. DOS cannot handle more than one primary partition on a single drive, and it can only boot from a floppy or from drive C: -
I've never used grub's map commands to rearrange disks but I would think they could be used in this situation.
One of my friends uses the same justification to keep Win98 around, then complains about all the problems it has, and all the new software he cannot use -- just so he can keep using FoxPro2. Duh, learn a new database, dude.
Yes, but he could also use dosemu to run his Foxpro2 (or 2.5)