Having DSL and Win98 on the same computer

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Having DSL and Win98 on the same computer
started by: Gremlinja

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Posted by Gremlinja on June 19 2004,09:34

Having DSL and Win98 on the same computer, is it possible?

Before install DSL on my hd (i really want to do it), I want to be sure that it will not uninstall my Windows partition. In fact, I want to have something like this when i turn on my computer:
        1.Windows 98
        2.DamnSmallLinux
How can i do for it

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Posted by AwPhuch on June 22 2004,00:48

Yes.

The safest and easiest way is to:
METHOD 1
1. Download the DSL 0.7.1.iso
2. Use a program called < ISOBUSTER > to extract the KNOPPIX dir from the iso
3. Put the KNOPPIX dir on your c:\ (network or however you want to get it there
4. Create a boot floppy by using < rawwritewin > to make you a boot floppy from the boot.img thats inside the KNOPPIX directory
5. Boot using the boot floppy...this way you have a dual boot system without having to install lilo or whatnot and its not using that much space.
6. TO UNINSTALL-Just delete the KNOPPIX dir from c:\ (very very simple)

Or...................................
METHOD 2
1. Resize your windows parition to leave approx 250 meg at the end of your c:\ by using a cd called < Ultimate Boot CD > which has numerous "freeware" utilities to resize a fat 32 partition
2. Do a HD install of DSL
3. If you dont want to dual boot and want to resize your windows partition to take up whole HD again then use < Ultimate Boot CD > to erase the Linux parition, then use a win98 boot floppy and "fdisk /mbr" to get rid of lilo.

Hope this helps

I prefer method 1, well if you have over 32 megs of ram

Brian
AwPhuch

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