> 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.
you can avoid this with Doc's suggestion of install lilo to a floppy
before you let Windows do it's dirty deed. Just copy lilo.conf to (e.g)
lilo.fd0.conf and change the first line to boot=/dev/fd0. Then run
'lilo -C /etc/lilo.fd0.conf'
> 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. ;)
installin 6.21 will be a waste of time, IMO. Just build a dos floppy with
the CD drivers. Then win98 boot disk Doc was talking about would work
fine, perhaps if you fully identified your CD to the list someone has the
driver already and can send you the image (which you can 'dd if=image
of=/dev/fd0 obs=18k' to create the disk from Linux).
I don't know if it was just 95 or if 98 does this too, but by
virtue of being an 'upgrade' copy, it requires that it see a previous
version of windows. You can either feed it the CD from another version
when prompted, or feed it the disk1 from a win3.1 install set (if you have
it). If you don't, then hope your 98 CD doesn't ask for it.
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