Linux --> Windows

[Deus]

Well I need to get windows on my linux box for a little while. I could only find the win98 full version cd lying around, but when I pop it in, there is an error when it trys to install.

What do I have I have to do to prep the HD? or remove linux?
--I use RH 8.0

[Tobalaz]

There is a Windows emulator called Wine (http://www.winehq.org/?page=download) you might be able to use instead. If you can get your little paws on partition magic then you can resize your drive partitions so you can drop windows on there without throwing out linux. Partition Magic will even let you format the new partition with a FAT file structure so you don't have to fdisk your whole drive to put 98 on there.
If neither of those will work for you and NEED Win98 (YUCK!) on there that bad, you'll have to fdisk and lose everything. Remember MS is a bunch of cocky basterds, linux sees windows, but windows wont see linux (on the same computer, not over a network).

[Deus]

Originally posted by Tobalaz@May 11 2003, 09:24 AM
If neither of those will work for you and NEED Win98 (YUCK!) on there that bad, you'll have to fdisk and lose everything.
heh I just need windows for a little bit, and 98 is the only full version I can find around here. What is fdisk? and how do I do that, I dont' have anything useful on that computer anyways

[Doorbasher]

FDISK is a DOS utility, usually used from a DOS boot disk. It's for repartitioning hard drives, setting active partitions, creating logical DOS drives, and stuff like that. Win XP uses DISKPART instead, but DISKPART sucks. Even though it supports NTFS, you can't make a FAT32 partition larger than 32GB with it. The '98 FDISK can make a FAT16 partition up to 2GB, and a FAT32 partition up to 2048GB. Note that after partitioning, you have to format the drive.

[d0nk`]

Originally posted by Doorbasher@May 11 2003, 09:16 AM
FDISK is a DOS utility, usually used from a DOS boot disk. It's for repartitioning hard drives, setting active partitions, creating logical DOS drives, and stuff like that. Win XP uses DISKPART instead, but DISKPART sucks. Even though it supports NTFS, you can't make a FAT32 partition larger than 32GB with it. The '98 FDISK can make a FAT16 partition up to 2GB, and a FAT32 partition up to 2048GB. Note that after partitioning, you have to format the drive.
fdisk is also a linux utility. although linux's cfdisk is much more "dossy" than fdisk in linux