On Tuesday 18 December 2001 16:06, o polite wrote: > Some time ago I tried to install the userfriendly OS Windows 98 on spare > partition. Of course it succeded in rendering my laptop unusable. It took > me two days to get my system back. This was four weeks ago, so now I'm > ready for some more pain. > > Instead of letting the windows installer put it's teeth in my hd I've tried > installing the OS by copying an complete installaion from another computer. > > I've mounted the other computers C: at /mnt/winc > and copied it to my empty FAT parition /dev/hda1 mounted at /mnt/hd like > so: > > cp -ax /mnt/winc /mnt/hd > > I've entered a entry for windows in lilo like so: > > other=/dev/hda1 > label=win > > Lilo will let me choose win at boot time. But I will get an errormessage > that says something like "This is not a bootdisk, replace it with a > bootdisk and press any key" in swedish. > > However my fdisk says: > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 122 979933+ 6 FAT16 > /dev/hda2 123 134 96390 83 Linux > /dev/hda3 135 170 289170 82 Linux swap > /dev/hda4 * 171 730 4498200 83 Linux > > Did I miss some magic flag when partitioning the drive? > Did I get the cp wrong? > Did HAL think I was trying to replace him permanently?
a solution probably will be putting in a floppy in the win98 machine typing in sys a: and then in your laptop sys c: or in the past format a: /s or something also worked.... Then in principle apart from the difference in hardware :), win98 should run.
