On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Justin Zygmont wrote:
> Does anyone know dos/win needs to be the first partition? My 8.4 gig EIDE
> drive is as follows:
>
> hda1 /boot 10 megs *Active*
> hda2 /mnt/c 2 Gigs
> hda3 swap
> hda4 / the rest of the drive (about 6 Gigs)
>
> I have dos 6.22 currently installed on hda2 but when I attempt to install
> win98 or 95 I get strange errors and reboots. When installing from the
> CD, it goes 1 step further but complains about a bad setup (CAB) file and
> quits. I changed hda2 to active but it didn't help, the only thing I can
> think of is the order of the partitions. My system is:
>
> P-100 24 megs of RAM
> fujitsu 8.4 Gig EIDE
> single speed CD-ROM
>
Windblows wants to be on the FIRST partition of your hard drive. The
solution is to partition with Linux, leaving about the first 10 megs
unpartitioned, then make a Windows partition and install Windows.
Then, go back and install linux.
Or, use something like partition magic to squeeze 10 megs out of the
head of your Windows drive for your /boot partition, then install
linux. :-)
John
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