Re: Linux user wants to install Win95

[Chris \"Cranky Spice\" Harshman]

1) Have a boot-disk ready so you can get back in and re-install LILO
   after Win95 writes it's own code to the master boot record.  :(
2) While in Linux, run FDISK and convert the OS/2 partition to FAT
   (type 6?  DOS >=32M).  
3) Boot with your DOS / Win95 bootdisk.  Provided you don't have any other
   FAT partitions, you should be able to FORMAT C: and everything else
   will be safe.  Then, install as normal.


Alternately, before rebooting out of Linux, change LILO so that it
installs to your root partition (rather than the MBR; for instance, if /
is /dev/hda1 then change the boot=/dev/hda to boot=/dev/hda1).  Then, in
DOS, run the OSBS boot selector installer; get it at 
ftp://ftp.freebird.org/unixware/freebird/bootmanager(s?)

 

> Sadly, it looks I finally have to get around to installing W95 (I need to
> use Delphi 3).  I've heard all kinds of horror stories about how it screws
> up prexisting OS installations.  I'm going to try to overwrite an OS/2
> partition with it (gasp!) because I'm low on disk space.  Is there some
> kind of FAQ for making sure it doesn't hose my RH 5.0 installation?  I
> grepped all of the HOWTOs installed on my system, but came up with
> nothing.  Basically, I want to just have it be a boot option from my OS/2
> BootManager, which I use to then boot LILO, DOS, etc.
> 
> Is there a good Web site for doing something like this?  I kind of hate to
> think that I'll be adding another number to M$ sales figures, but unless
> I can buy it used somewhere, I guess I'll have to... blech.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff
> 
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