if you have your harddrive setup with fat/fat32 and a linux partition you
can reinstall win98 without any problems because win98 can't read the linux
partition info so it won't be affected by the reinstallation of win98.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Aldrich
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 1:30 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Reinstalling Win98
>
>
> On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > On 27 Oct 99, at 20:18, Sam wrotf:
> >
> > > that will build a "default" boot profile and wipe lilo out of
> the master boot
> > > record
> > >
> > umm. . .actually i want to keep lilo around still. . .just
> wondering if reinstalling
> > Win is going to mess with linux any
> >
> Most definitely....Kiss your LILO goodbye. Make a boot
> floppy off your Linux system now, so that you can boot back
> to Linux after reinstalling Windows. Also, as someone else
> has said, MAKE SURE IT WORKS FIRST!!! :-) If you don't make
> sure it works, you can be in for a REAL headache, 'cause
> then you'll have to download and make an emergency rescue
> disk and a Linux boot floppy from within Windows.... and
> using those tools it's much more trouble to fix your LILO
> afterwards! :-)
> John
>
