win95/98. Now that i have completed the installation, how do i get to the 2gb partition which i have set aside and install win95/98. I

Is this partition the *first* Primary partition? DOS recognizes only the first primary partition (don't know why does it not recognize the others) and also this partition needs to be set as the active partition.

Also keep in mind that your LILO will be overwritten after Windoze 9x installs itself, so make a Linux bootable floppy before hand and/or copy the vmlinuz file on your Windoze partition. You can use loadlin.exe later to boot into Linux.

Regards, Shailesh.

-----Original Message----- From: noel seq [mailto:noelseq@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 2:24 PM To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Subject: [ILUG-BOM] installing win after installing linux

Hi guys,

I have installed RHL7.1 on my 8gb hdd with 6gb for linux and 2gb for win95/98. Now that i have completed the installation, how do i get to the 2gb partition which i have set aside and install win95/98. I can see the partition from linux as fat 16. But booting from floppy does not show this partition and i cannot even access it. Fdisk in dos (floppy boot) shows 8gb as a single partition while fdisk in linux shows all my partition /boot, swap, /root and fat16.

I have not even formatted the fat16 partition. Can i format it as fat16 from linux? then probably i can install win95/98 and create a label in lilo. Anybody gone through this path before ?

Regards,

Noel.

Gnu/Linux registered user #226476

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