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тАО07-18-2001 08:47 AM
тАО07-18-2001 08:47 AM
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тАО07-18-2001 01:05 PM
тАО07-18-2001 01:05 PM
Re: format command
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тАО07-18-2001 01:50 PM
тАО07-18-2001 01:50 PM
Re: format command
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тАО07-18-2001 05:16 PM
тАО07-18-2001 05:16 PM
Re: format command
You need to repartition the disk and make room for the windows 98 installation!
Fdisk is the partition software of choice, and can be used not only to repartition the drive, but to remove the LILO from the Master Boot Record. Details of this process are available from Microsoft (of course) at http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q171/6/11.asp
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тАО07-19-2001 09:56 AM
тАО07-19-2001 09:56 AM
Re: format command
Here is a method you can use, but remember that it will make you loose all data in your disk.
Boot from your Linux install CD-Rom.
After some screens (language and keyboard configuration), type CTRL-ALT-F2 to get a console shell.
Then, launch fdisk to remove all partitions on your disk.
For example if you have a single IDE disk, your disk drive is known by the system as /dev/hda. Then execute fdisk /dev/hda.
At the prompt : type "m" to get some help.
The deletion command is "d". Start deleting from the highest partition number to the lowest one (eg : from 7 to 1). After each deletion, type "p" to make sure that is it actually done.
At the end, type "w" to apply changes and exit.
After that, your disk is ready to be used for W98 install.
All what I described above could be done with an MS-DOS boot disk with the MS-DOS fdisk.exe command. Not exactly the same syntax, but you can reach the same result.
But in my opinion, replacing Linux by W98 is exactly as replacing a Jaguar with a Corsa...
Good luck
Kodjo
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тАО07-20-2001 02:09 AM
тАО07-20-2001 02:09 AM
Re: format command
U boot thru a dos bootable and use fdisk command. First remove all partition and then create fresh partitions as per ur requirement.
Best of luck
Shahul
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тАО08-07-2001 06:51 AM
тАО08-07-2001 06:51 AM
Re: format command
In linux (As root)
Assuming your disk is /dev/hda
cat /dev/zero > /dev/hda
let it run for a minute, then hit the reset button and boot off the win98 install disk.
Win98 will see a blank disk and just create a (Disk sized) win98 partition for you.
:-)
Gav
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тАО08-07-2001 05:21 PM
тАО08-07-2001 05:21 PM
Re: format command
Cool idea -- once upon a time a sysadm at my work did something very like that to the root fs. Ended up in an ugly reinstall as there wasn't enough left to do a restore...