On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Satya wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2000 at 11:42, Philip S Tellis wrote:
>
> [formatting windows partitions in linux]
> > Yes it is possible, but no, you shouldn't do that. Linux can format a
> > partition as any of the partition types listed through fdisk. Why you
> > shouldn't do it:
>
> Practically, I found out the hard way that it doesn't work too well. Must
> fdisk/format in DOS. (How the heck do you intsall to a virgin disk in a
> virgin system??)
- Boot from floppy.
- Boot from CDROM.
- Take the hdd to another machine and install the OS.
- Bring another hdd to this machine and install the OS to the new HDD.
- Treat it as a diskless machine, boot up, install the OS over the
network.
- Write a tiny monitor program using a microprocessor kit and save it to
the disk. This program should be able to boot, and allow you to write
files to disk from the console. Then boot from that monitor program and
write a program that will allow you to transfer data from another device
(floppy? network?) to your disk. Then use this program to copy an entire
OS to your disk.
There's more than one way to do it.
The others are left as an excercise to the reader.
Philip
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