From: Bernard Tyers (btyers at domain snet.wit.ie)
Date: Fri 20 Aug 1999 - 19:58:58 IST
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Dave Neary wrote:
> Originally, I was looking for a way to get a boot disk off the CD (there
> isn't one), and finally I managed to get a boot disk with a CD driver that
> worked. When I try to install, though, Win95 tells me it can't install
> because there isn't a valid VFAT partition available. I know windows
> probably wants to install itself on hda1, but I don't want this to happen.
why don't you want to do that?
> Has anyone run into this problem, or have a quick fix for it? I don't mind
> if it over-writes the MBR on hda, but I obviously want to keep all the
> other stuff there :)
one, dirty quick-fix would be to:
swap the slave with the master, install what you want.
install linux on the slave.
then swap back again.
don't know what LILO would do when it saw that anyone?
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