formatting disk

[Mr N8]

I have linux Mandrake 8.0 on my machine. I would like to dual boot with win98, so I can play age of empires again. However, I have no idea how to get windows to recognize a fat32 partition, made in Mandy. I made a fat partition of 3GB, put in the Win98 disk, and turned on the PC. Setup starts, but it hangs when it's supposed to start installing. Any help would be appreciated, so I can get back to pilaging my friends! Thanks

NAte

[nightsky]

Don't know how u setup Mandrake but i just finished setting up dualboot w/Loadlin for Slackware8 and win98 and it went just fine. Under Linux \:
# mkdir /win
# mount -t vfat /dev/hde1[win partition] /win
# mkdir /win/linux
# cd /root
# cp loadlin*[in my instance] /win/linux
# cp /vmlinuz /win/linux
# cd /win/linux
# unzip loadlin16a.zip
In my case I let linux see my win partition so i cld skip step2 but if u have something already linux lets u know and no harm done. Restart pc
let it bootup and when asked if u want to boot into safemode choose prompt only:
C:\> cd \
C:\> attrib -r -a -s -h msdos.sys
C:\> edit msdos.sys and set
[options]
bootgui=0
bootdelay=0
bootmenu=0
logo=0 save and exit
Now at C:\edit autoexec.bat
cls
echo system boot menu
echo.
echo 1 - Linux
echo 2 - Windows
echo.
choice /c:12 "Selection? ->"
if errorlevel 2 goto Win
if errorlevel 1 goto Linux
:Linux
cls
echo "Starting Linux... "
cd \linux
loadlin c:\linux\vmlinuz root=/dev hde2 ro [partition D:]
goto END
:WIN
cls
echo "Starting Windows... "
Win
goto END
:END

*********Note I had to play around with dos to get into edit msdos.sys and autoexec.bat and Config.sys ***Goto linuxnebie.org ->NHF's OS Booting -> Multiple OS Booting Without Lilo - Thus far windows is booting fine but have not gotten Linux to boot off the hdd yet. Have fun.

[Mr N8]

Thanks, I'll give it a try tonight or tomorrow. If anything goes wrong, you can be sure that I'll be asking more questions.

Nate

[nightsky]

Randy the author of Eclipse sent me this site it will work www.linux.sh just follow the steps on the instructions there for loadlin. Print them out.
DON'T USE THE ABOVE INSTRUCTIONS! I found better one and i now have 3options, win98, Dos, Linux which gives me the c:\Linux> prompt just type loadlin /vmlinuz. Also u need to create a linux.bat file. Do u know how to create batch files and config files? Just type edit autoexec.bat or config.sys and type in your lines... save and close takes you to a new clear page to write another or save and exit... The linux.bat is maybe 1 or 2 lines loading loadlin and pointing it to your kerneal image and the format depends on whether you created a linux or loadlin folder in C:\>Linux or C:\>Loadlin ? Just chk out http://www.linux.sh