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@Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:17:34 -0600
Subject: Re: reinstall W98 with ECS installed
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Phil Astley wrote:

>Hi there
>
>I used to have no trouble installing OS/2 - done it hundreds of times.
>When I finally had to use newer hardware - esp big disks, I eventually
>found the easiest way was to upgrade to ECS. I love ECS.
>
>However, recently my W98 system seemed corrupt so I reformatted it and
>tried to reinstal. It told me I already had an OS installed and as this
>was not an upgrade version, I should get one. Figuring the OS was my
>third system - W2K, I relucantly formatted the W2K partition. I also
>removed Boot Manager. No joy.
>
>So now I've lost the two Win systems, and still W98 refuses to install
>because it's not an upgrade version. Surely I don't have to wipe the ECS
>partition? or just as bad, some of the other partitions I have formatted
>variously as FAt16, FAT32, NTFS and HPFS?
>
>Any ideas greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>
>  
>
Use lvm to make sure that the partition you want to install w98 on is 
startable (bootable?).  It should then install   You will then have to 
boot from the eCS cd's to reinstall bootmanager and set the eCS and 
win98 systems up in it (though you may want to set the w2k as startable 
and reinstall it-apply fixpak- then go back and install bootmanager).
Andy


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