mark lewis wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RT>> So how *would* you install 98 if you wanted a dual-boot system?

 RT>> Install it first, then Linux after ...

 RJT> Yeah.  I'm just trying to remember how it went,  and I don't
 RJT> recall anything in there about partitioning,  and am thinking
 RJT> it will probably try and grab the whole drive for itself.
 RJT> Maybe I oughta set up a test fixture and see if making
 RJT> partitions first would help any...

 ml> FWIW: i always make the partitions first... then, for win9x, i
 ml> format the drive and then copy the win9x directory off the CD on to
 ml> the harddrive into /options/win9x where the 'x' is '5', '8', or
 ml> '8se' depending on the version i'm installing... then i remove the
 ml> CD from the CDROM drive and the floppy from the floppy
 ml> drive... then a quick 'cd /options/win9x' and 'setup' get
 ml> everything going and loading _from the hardrive_... leave this
 ml> options/win9x directory /on the drive/ and when you add or remove
 ml> things that would normally ask for the CDROM disk, it won't as it
 ml> will know to look right in that directory where you installed it
 ml> from...

I'll have to give that a shot,  then,  and see how it goes.  Right now the
project is on hold while I figure out what's on the machine now and what
needs to be installed after 98,  and then I'll go from there.  I sure as
heck ain't gonna just try and move stuff over.  It's not even convenient to
hook the old drives up as the current box is SCSI,  and the new one won't
be...

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