installing win with linux

[Master of Reality]

is there any way to install windows on a computer that already has linux, without it changing the (GRUB) bootloader or anything else in linux?????
The only reason i wnat windoze is to use my DVD, because its not supported in linux (i actually might just temporarily use windoze to test my DVD to see if it works)

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by X11:
All you need is a fat32 partition big enough, and a Bootmaniger.

i have already installed GRUB in the MBR and windoze will overwrite that when i install, ownt it???

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by X11:
After installing use your bootdisk that you should have made after/well installing Linix. TO boot into linux and then redo grubs MBR

how do i redo GRUB?

[Nobber]

/sbin/grub
grub> setup (hd0)

I think...

If you're installing Windows 2000, you won't have to reinstall your bootloader. Win2K is, as far as I know, the only version of Windows that leaves the MBR alone when you're installing it.

[askani]

or you could just open up an msdos prompt and type in fdisk /mbr (restores previous mbr). this may be kinda dangerous though so be careful (keep a boot diskette around).

[Master of Reality]

fucking fdisk sucks. I have 2 linux partitions (1 is a swap) on hda1 and 1.2 GB of free space, fdisk shows that all the space is being used by a non-windows partition. So i need to do partitioning in linux, is there a partitioner that comes with linux?(doesnt diskdruid come with red hat7.2?)

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by Master of Reality:
fucking fdisk sucks. I have 2 linux partitions (1 is a swap) on hda1 and 1.2 GB of free space, fdisk shows that all the space is being used by a non-windows partition. So i need to do partitioning in linux, is there a partitioner that comes with linux?(doesnt diskdruid come with red hat7.2?)

Uh, yeah. "fdisk".  I think you used the brain dead M$ FDISK and not the far superior Linux fdisk by the sounds of it.

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:


Uh, yeah. "fdisk".  I think you used the brain dead M$ FDISK and not the far superior Linux fdisk by the sounds of it.

X11 told me to. http://forum.fuckmicrosoft.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=000232

[voidmain]

If you are in Linux and have one IDE hard drive that has some free (unpartitioned) space available and you want to create a vfat filesystem on it you would use fdisk to create the partition and "mkfs" to create the filesystem. "fdisk" would be similiar to FDISK in DOS and "mkfs" would be similar to "format C:".

So as root type "fdisk /dev/hda". You can type "m" for help and to see the existing partition table you would type "p".  You should see the cylinder range used by each partition. Say you have a total of 2400 cylinders and you have 400 cylinders unused at the end of your disk and want to create a vfat partition, you would do a "n" for new partition. Set the partition number, set the first cylinder to the first unused cylinder and the last cylinder to the last unused cylinder. You can do another "p" to see if your partition table looks right and then do a "w" to save it and exit.

Then type "mkfs -t vfat /dev/hda5" (assuming your new partition is "/dev/hda5". Then add it to your /dev/fstab and mount it.

[Master of Reality]

i accidenatlly made a linux filestystem (because i'm stupid) and now when i type "fdisk -u hda" it says "cannot open device", it says that for any harddrive i put down.

[voidmain]

Because you didn't give it the full path, it should be "fdisk /dev/hda". And it's no problem to change it to vfat. Just use the "t" command to change the type.

[ April 28, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
Because you didn't give it the full path, it should be "fdisk /dev/hda".

oh, yeah.. thats what i did the first time.
(dont blame me,i just woke up... and i am in the eastern time zone, it is midnight)
you should be thanking me... i got you to your thousandth post!

[ April 28, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]

[voidmain]

Dang, I'm over my quota. I was only trying for one post per member...