On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 23:00, Paul Dickson wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:41:27 -0700, Roy Babin wrote:
> 
> > I have Suse8.2 installed, now the wife would like to have Windows HP 
> > installed also. When I try to install I get the following message.
> > 
> > "The hard drive does not contain a FAT16 or Fat32 Windows partition."
> >   This may be caused by any of the following reasons.
> >   1  You are using an NTFS (Windows) file system.
> >   2  you are using an HPFS (OS/2) file system
> >   3  The last partition on your drive was NTFS or an HPFS Partition.
> > 
> > What may I do to correct the situation and keep the wife happy?
> > Thank you for any help one mught be.
> 
> Make sure any partitions created on the HD are created by Microsoft's
> FDISK program.  In the past, I've had an Win98 install overwrite Win2K
> because I had created the partition table with the linux fdisk program.
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Actually, this shouldn't matter at all to Windows but I have seen a
number of the 'restore' disks that came from vendors such as Dell,
Gateway, eMachines that simply reformatted the /dev/hda disk and
installed Win98. The Windows 98 installer was much more polite than
that. Windows NT/2K/XP all allow you to choose the disk and
create/delete existing partitions so that would never happen unless you
choose it to happen.
---
> 
> So my rule of thumb: If you are going to use any version of Windows on a
> HD, partition it with Microsoft's FDISK.
> 
> I've had no trouble installing Linux, Win2K, and Win98 on a HD (even in
> that order) once the HD was partitioned with FDISK.  If you know what
> you're doing installing the OS's in that order isn't much of a problem.
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It's always easier to install Windows first and then Linux afterwards
simply because the boot loader for Linux installed last can detect
Windows partitions and create the grub/lilo entries for you. If you have
a disk already formatted for Linux and the bootloader installed...it's
probably a good idea to boot the Windows 98 cd, exit the setup program
and run the command 'fdisk /mbr' to clear the bootloader from the boot
blocks of the hard drive to allow Windows to install it's bootloader
which will be ultimately replaced by subsequent Linux install.

Craig

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