Install Win98 on /dev/sda4

[Doug]

On 02/16/2011 08:55 AM, Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> On Mittwoch 16 Februar 2011, 10:36:29, Waleed Hamra wrote:
>> On 02/16/2011 09:29 AM, Jerry Lapham wrote:
>>> I had a Win98 install disk and 36GiB of free space at the end of my HD,
>>> so I formatted it as FAT32 and it became /dev/sda4.
>>>
>>> When I booted from the Win98 install disk it said DriveC wasn't the right
>>> format and wouldn't let me install without formatting it.  How can I
>>> point it to /dev/sda4?
> I'm pretty sure it can't be done easily. Win9x wants to be installed to sda1.
> You can try to use grub to swap sda1 and sda4 (basically so that Win98 sees
> sda4 as sda1). However, that needs to be done for the install CD, too, and I
> don't know how to do that.
>
>> this has to do with Windows 98 wanting the boot partition (the active
>> partition) to be setup for booting this sda4 partition.
>> is sda4 primary or logical?
> sda1-4 are primary - always! (have a look at how the kernel numbers primary
> vs. logical partitions)
>
>    --Reinhold
>
I seem to remember that fdisk allows you to mark one partition as 
"bootable"--
have you marked sda4 so? --doug

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