Adding Windows partition to all SuSE box
I am giving a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop to a friend. It currently has SuSE Personal 8.0 on it. She is willing to try it as long as there is a W98 partition on it. So I tried to install W98 from scratch on it and got the message that the drive was damaged and could not be formatted. The same thing happened when I tried to install W2000. Then I couldn't boot the SuSE 8.0 system. I reinstalled SuSe 8.0 easily enough, so I know the drive is okay, but what do I have to do to allow windows to install on it? Anyone know what I must do to remedy this situation? Thank you Neal
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 05:29:20 -0700
neal mcdermott
I reinstalled SuSe 8.0 easily enough, so I know the drive is okay, but what do I have to do to allow windows to install on it?
I would try: 1. Boot from the Win98 floppy. 2. At the a:\ prompt type "fdisk /mbr" + return. This will write the Win mbr back to the hard drive. 3. Use fdisk to delete all partitions on the drive, then partition the drive to give you a MS partition, and format it accordingly (follow fdisk's instructions about rebooting at the appropriate time). 4. Install Win98. 5. Install SuSE 8.0, using the remainder of the hdd as you wish, and then run lilo (installing into the mbr) to provide access to both systems. 6. Or, you might install lilo into the SuSE partition and use something like xosl to give you similar access. HTH Terence
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neal mcdermott
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Terence McCarthy