As much as I despise windows, I still need it for the occasional
task. Recently, I acquired an ATI video card from a friend and, while
it works fine in Linux, windows refuses to boot, giving me the BSOD.
So, I'm fixing this problem in the only sensable way I know how, since
installing the latest ATI drivers broke the system further. I'm
planning on formatting my fat partition and reinstalling windows 1898
from scratch.
Now, maybe I'm a bit paranoid, but upgrading windows causes me lots of
headaches, not the least of which is clearing the bootable flag on my
Linux partition, requiring me to boot a kernel with loadlin. But, I've
never had to reinstall from scratch, though. I'm planning on
installing dos 6.21, installing the dos version of my CDROM drivers
and then installing windows 98 from CD. Has anyone done something like
this before? Will reinstalling dos and 98 touch my Linux partition in
any way? Common sense tells me that formatting c: will only effect the
dos partition, but I've been burned a few times by trusting my common
sense. ;)
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