Thus spake Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "Robert L. Harris" wrote: > > > Ok, > > Here's the scenario, I have a 6Gig windows drive and 4 Gig Linux. The > > 6 is divided into 1 and 6 (/dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 respectivly). I have > > 98 on /dev/hda1. I run this one nativly(sp?) and don't want to run it > > under vmware as it will trash my drivers, etc. I can't blow it away as > > Rogue Spear won't run under it vmware yet. I'd like to put 98 on /dev/hda2 > > and hide /dev/hda1 from windows so it won't even know it exists (causes > > problems otherwise). > > > > Has anyone found a way to "hide" a partition or another workaround > > like this yet? > > > > Robert > > So you want to put Win98 on both /dev/hda1 (already there) and /dev/hda2, and > not let > the Win98 on /dev/hda2 see the /dev/hda1 partition (and it's corresponding > Win98 > installation)? > > And presumably you meant that the 6GB drive is partitioned into 1GB and 5GB > (which > equals 6), rather than 1GB and 6GB (which equals 7). > > What I'd do is convert the /dev/hda2 partition to ext2 and mount it under > /win, then > use VMWARE to create a new virtual machine in /win, and install Win98 to it. > This > Win98 won't see the Win98 on /dev/hda1 since it's in a totally different > (virtual) > computer, which is "powered off" when Linux/VMWARE is up and running. This > assumes > that Rogue Spear is run on the /dev/hda1 copy of Win98, and you don't have > any such > apps on the /dev/hda2 copy of Win98 that won't run under VMWARE. > >
Yes I meant 1 and 5. I can't convert /dev/hda2 to ext2 or all the software, apps, etc on /dev/hda2 won't be visible to the windows partition on /dev/hda1 and I won't be able to "share" a single install instead of multiple installs of the same softwre. Robert :wq! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert L. Harris | Low quality in a product happens. Senior System Engineer | That doesn't mean it's right and at RnD Consulting. | definitely doesn't mean it should \_ be accepted. Require quality. http://www.rnd-consulting.com/~nomad DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. FYI: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'