reinstalling windows98 in dual booting with Linux
 

:( I am running Redi Hat 7.2 and win 98. I want to format my win98 and reinstall it. Please lemme know how can I achieve this(Using Grub) And also how can I read pdf documents in Linux.

Neontra

The easiest way to reinstall Windows is to drop to DOS and then assuming windows is installed to c:\windows do:

deltree c:\windows
deltree c:\progra~1

That will delete Windows and your programs, so be careful! You should only reinstall windows if you know what you're doing.

PDF docs in Linux can be viewed using ggv in gnome or there is a KDE viewer that is similar. Adobe make a reader program for linux but it sucks pipes so avoid it. I think the kde one is called kview or something.

Anyway, there are lots of ways. You may also have gv which i think can do it too

Since you specifically said format, reboot in DOS mode and "format c:", then boot off your Windows install disk (if your windows install disk isn't bootable, make a system start disk for windows (Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs -> Start Disk) before you reformat. The disk will have CD-ROM support and you can run your Windows install CD from there) and reinstall.

If you have grub installed to your MBR, Windows will overwrite it when you reinstall, so have a Linux boot disk on hand so you can reinstall grub.

and how do I install Grub once again ?

It is probably as simple as "/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda" (substitute a different drive for hda if necessary on your system). Since you have used grub before the configuration files should be all set up, so this should be all you need.

If this doesn't work, you'll need to edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to set it up for your system. The "Installing GRUB" section of the Linux+Win9x+Grub-HOWTO at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+Win9...roc.html#AEN54 will explain how to do this.

thanx a lot oot.