On Monday 08 August 2005 21:56, you wrote:
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Keith Keesing wrote:
My ignorance has got me into a mess that is quite beyond me.
I got a new upgrade box some time ago, with a microsoft partition taking up the whole disc, but no operating system installed. I reduced the microsoft partition and installed Suse personal 8.2 (from CD) with no problems and used it for quite a while. I then deleted the linux partitions and tried to install windows 98 in a 10Mb partition. The CD would get as far as displaying installation options, but when I made a choice all I got then was the cursor blinking in the top left corner. I get the same result with a dos floppy boot disc with fdisk.exe on it - as is the case with any dos or microsoft boot process I have tried. I then reinstalled Suse (using the whole 40 Mb's) and have been using it trouble free for some months now, but I don't have the knowledge to do quite everything I want to. Even if I do work out how to do everything in Suse, (which I would much prefer) I would like to understand what I have got myself into.
I presume this is all obvious to most, so if some kind person could point me in right direction I would be grateful.
Keith
PS - would it be possible to reduce the native linux partition by 10 Mb and install windows 98 in that while Suse is still installed ?
Sure, win 98 or winxp, but on a 10 G (!!) partition; 10 M is NOT enough.... reducing linux partition(s) might be done ... Best wishes, TMC
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Whoops - sorry. For "*.Mb" read "*.G" - didn't have my mind properly on what I was doing - probably my main problem !! Keith
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