Install Win98 on /dev/sda4

[Jerry Lapham]

On Wednesday, February 16, 2011 02:29:20 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?

For those who've been following this thread, I thought I'd provide an update.  
I moved swap from sda1 to the top of the disk.  I Clonezilla'd sda2 to sda12 
and deleted sda2.  I created a FAT32 sda1.

After all that messing around, the Win98 disk finally worked up to the point of 
rebooting.  Unfortunately, it didn't reboot.  Looks like a Windows problem and 
I don't know what to do about it.

After recopying the boot sector I once again have a working Linux box -- but 
still no Windows.

	-Jerry
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