> I am going to install Win98 on my boot-up drive for the (only) purpose of
> playing some online games with friends of mine. Currently the only OS
> installed on my machine is Linux. My root partition with my Linux SMP
> kernel is only 100 megs, and then I left the whole next 1900 megs free.
> After that is a 2 GB FAT partition that I left intact from a previous
> install of NT, that has since been erased (it was in the first 2 GB of
> space on the disk, which prevented me from installing Linux). On a
> separate drive is my /usr partition for Linux.
>
> My question to you gentlemen (and ladies, if any) is this. How does one go
> about making the disk bootable into Linux again after installing Win98? I
> know that once I install Win98, it will hose whatever it is at the start of
> the disk that makes Linux boot up. I don't want to lose my Linux
> installation, and I really want to be able to boot up into either Win98 or
> Linux.
>
You have two options either use a boot/rescue disk (if you are using redhat
you can make one using mkbootdisk or just use the installation cd). You
use it to boot into linux after installing windows and then run lilo again.
The second option, and my favorite since it does'nt need any "external"
support, is to install lilo not on the Master Boot Record (MBR) (which windows
overwrites) but on the partition where linux resides. After installing
windows just use fdisk (DOS fdisk) to make this partition bootable. When
the system boots it will be redirected to the linux partition and lilo takes
over.
> Can I restore this by running the Linux installation CD? If so, how, and
> how will I then boot up into win98 again?
>
You should read the manual page for lilo about booting other operating
systems (man lilo.conf) but here is an example:
other = /dev/hda2
label = win
table=/dev/hda
Rui Sousa
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