On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, LeRoy Hogan wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I don't know an easy way to reload a full version of WIN98 on a dual > boot machine. > > How do you save your lilo so reloading of WIN98 won't mess it up and
Make a boot diskette from your Linux installation...then, when you're done installing Windows, you can boot from the floppy, and then rerun "lilo" to put the lilo boot sector back in place. > workaround WIN98 'install setup' complaining that WIN98 is already > installed? The workaround for this is actually not too difficult. First, make a directory on your Windows partition (I usually call it "Wininst"), and copy the ocntents of the Win98 CD into it. Next, boot into Command Prompt Only mode. Now, from the root directory, rename Windows to something else (I usually call it "oldwin"). This is so that if the new installation isn't what you hoped for, you can always delete the new installation, rename "oldwin" back to "windows" and have your old installation available. Now, cd to the "c:\wininst" directory, and run "setup". The last thing to note is that when the installer asks you where you'd like to install, it will ask you if you want to install it to "c:\oldwin" or an alternate location. Select the alternate location, and then tell it "c:\windows". Voila!!! You get a clean installation of Windows, and you don't lose your data. And, once you're sure that the installation is usable, you can delete your "oldwin" directory and free up a ton of disk space. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
