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Dual boot - Mandrake 8.2 and win98 (or XP)? URGENT!!!

InFecTed

InFecTed

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I need urgent help on this one guys.
I have now installed Mandrake 8.2 on a PC. 3 partitions on the disk. Linux swap, Linux and one empty (I left it for windows).
I also have a linux boot disk.
What do I need to do?

My aprroach would be:
1. boot with win98 system floppy
2. run fdisk and format the empty partition
3. install win98 on it (the pc will boot with win98 after the install right?)
4. boot with linux boot disk and do whatever I need to the lilo.conf file. I have no clues on this one so please tell me.
I need a step by step idiot proof guide😱
Waiting
 
It would have been easier if you had installed win98 first. But you basically got it right, if it will work at all.
 
Ok, but I need to know what I need to do after win98 is installed. How to make the dual boot with lilo, I boot with the linux boot disk and what next???
 
okay, your win98 partition has to be the first primary DOS partition, and then you probably shoud have a linux boot partition, then a linux swap, then a regular linux partition. The boot partition for linux will map to the /boot directory, while everything else on / will map to the regular linux partition. All of these should be primary partitions, except the regular linux partition you can have as a logical one.

install win98 like you normally would. PC will boot right into Win98 after install because it writes into the MBR of your harddrive and making it book into Win98.

install Mandrake (you should get 9.0 if you can, and not use 8.2 anymore). And in the boot manager setup during Mandrake Installation you should be able to say you want to also boot into Win98 (which if you follow the above partition mapping, it would be /dev/hda), and the Installer should set the bootloader up for you automatically.

I don't use LILO, but with my RedHat and GRUB, I can add in Windows while I'm setting up GRUB in the RedHat Installation.

after Mandrake is done, when you boot up you will see your Linux bootloader, and one of the two choices should be Win98.
 
The best way to figure out LILO is to look at some of the documentation. I know I know, thats not what you want to hear. But what I always did when I dualbooted and LILO did not set itself up properly, was look at the documentation and basically copy the setup in the examples.
 
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