> The most critical thing is I must be able to boot into Win98 intact, and
> also exit to DOS mode intact. Linux must'nt touch my files in base
> 640K memory (currently just 19K, despite having DOS EMS enabled,
> wow)
If you have another emtpy harddisk or enough unpartitioned space
for Linux there shouldn't be a problem. But if you have one disk
that is completely covered by Windows, you must be very careful !
First thing I would do is making a backup of all your own data,
text documents, spreadsheets, p0rn, whatever... :)
Then you can try to decrease the size of Windows's partition.
There's a free tool called FIPS that supposedly does this which
comes with some Linux distributions. Or you get Partition Magic,
which is included in Caldera Linux in some form I think. A cleaner
way would be to erase the disk completely and do a proper partitioning,
but a lot more work of course.
If you use the standard LILO boot manager booting Win98 is no
problem, I do it all the time. You can even set LILO up to boot
Windows by default and Linux only if you intervene or the other
way round. (Which is, of course, way better :)
I don't know what you mean about EMS memory, but there is no
such nonsense in Linux.
Good luck,
Alexander
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