can i create a fresh fat32 FS where win98 will be installed in the future using RH8?

kublador · 06-02-2003, 12:36 PM

i just bought a new harddisk.... and im using RH8 - 2.4.18-14
i plugged it up.. i ran fdisk.... i created a win95 FAT32..... here is what i did..

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 1 6256 3152992+ b Win95 FAT32

... now.. how can i format it? after i format it, will it perform like it was formatted by a format.com of microsoft? can i still install a win98 or other windows OS to that partition? will it boot properly? thank you very much

God bless

Tomasfuego · 06-02-2003, 01:17 PM

there is this program in /sbin called mkfs i believe. You call format anything with that and some of the similarly named programs.

To install windows under grub, you have to create another grub entry and tell it to do a chain boot up....i forget how, but I do believe its in one of LDP's How-To's.

Good luck

Edward78 · 06-02-2003, 01:18 PM

Well besides windows wanting to be the first os installed and wanting to be first on the drive. If you can somehow can choose the patition you made to install on it should work fine The linux petition tool should work. This might help http://www.tldp.org/ might have info.

Tomasfuego · 06-02-2003, 01:30 PM

Thats the beauty of the chain boot loader option.....Windoze thinks it has the whole hard drive. =)

Tomasfuego · 06-02-2003, 01:34 PM

This is the page that should explain it. Bon apetite!

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+Win9...WTO/index.html

kublador · 06-02-2003, 10:30 PM

uhmmm what i mean is . installing windows on the harddrive itself. not with linux... is that still possible? will it still boot normally? im just wondering if it will because it was formatted by linux..

2damncommon · 06-02-2003, 11:10 PM

It should not matter if you used Windows or Linux fdisk as long as you do it correctly (you made the Windows primary bootable if you are not using a bootloader?).
I always go by the rule that you format during your OS install to insure compatibility.