On Tuesday 13 January 2004 12:54 am, Ramin wrote: > You are right. I forgot to explain this case. Actually my case was even > more complicated since i wanted to reinstall Windows XP too. Once during > the installation i used Mandrake partition utility to define partitions and > format them but quit the installation before installing the packages (well > it was a waste of time since i had to do it again later any way). Then i > installed Windows XP and later Mandrake. This time i did not have to > partition the disks but i had to format the first primary partition from > Linux to FAT to install DrDOs there. This was because it is impossible to > fool Windows XP by hiding FAT partitions: it always sees them and want to > pick the first one as drive C:/.
However, Windows XP does not need to boot from C:. It will happily default to booting from D: if you specify that drive as the installation target. Windows 98, OTOH, is not so versatile. You will need to have Windows 98 installed in the primary partition on the first hard drive in order to boot with it. I would suggest creating a FAT partition on the first hard drive and formatting and installing Windows 98. Next, install Windows XP on a new D: partition, it will overwrite the MBR but add a boot line to the boot menu for both Windows 98 and Windows XP. Finally, reinstall Mandrake and it should add Lilo which will happily add all Linux boot options as well as Windows XP and 98 to its boot menu. > With XOSL that i use, installing Windows at any time would not cause any > problem! It is true that windows writes to MBR and wipes out whatever is > there. However XOSL has a restore option! So after installing a windows OS, > I insert the XOSL floppy and restore it! Then i am on XOSL as before! Cool! > I wonder if Mandrake could include a similar restore facility. It does. You can run the Mandrake CD in rescue mode and it will rewrite Lilo to the MBR if it has been overwritten. You can then manually add boot options for Windows 98, XP, etc. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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