On 8/12/07, Brian Beattie <<a href="mailto:beattie@beattie-home.net">beattie@beattie-home.net</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 22:44 -0500, Linda Hanigan wrote: > I have an unused computer setting around that has unbuntu installed on > the hard drive. I replaced it with a newer and faster computer. My son > really wants to play his sisters old win98 games. Since I still have a > Win 98 CD for the computer I thought about reinstalling win 98 on it for > him. Does anybody know what I have to do to reformat the drive as a > vfat? > I assume boot from cd and run > mkfs.vat /dev/hda If you wipe out the partition table Win98 will install itself. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=100 will zero out hte first 100 blocks of the disk which should do it.</blockquote><div> You can also create a bootable DOS formatted floppy disk or bootable DOS USB under Linux, you need to download the bootdisk images from <a href="http://bootdisk.com">bootdisk.com</a>, or <a href="http://freedos.org">freedos.org</a>, usually .EXE files are just zip files, that you can unzip them to obtain the .IMG or .IMA files. For floppy, do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 mkdosfs -I /dev/fd0 dd if=DOS.IMG of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 For USB, you need to download the mbr package "sudo apt-get install mbr", then make sure your USB drives are unmounted before doing any operations. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 <re-plug USB><unmount every automatic mounts> mkisofs -I /dev/sda install-mbr --force /dev/sda fdisk /dev/sda (then create a new FAT partition, set it as bootable) <re-plug USB><unmount every automatic mounts> mkisofs -I /dev/sda1 mount the IMG file into a directory, example /mnt/ mount -o loop DOS.IMG /mnt then mount /dev/sda1 cp -R /mnt/* /mount/disk/ unmount everything. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> Linda > > -- Brian Beattie LFS12947 | "Honor isn't about making the right choices. <a href="mailto:beattie@beattie-home.net">beattie@beattie-home.net</a> | It's about dealing with the consequences." <a href="http://www.beattie-home.net"> www.beattie-home.net</a> | -- Midori Koto -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>