HD Install :: Having DSL and Win98 on the same computer

Having DSL and Win98 on the same computer, is it possible?

Before install DSL on my hd (i really want to do it), I want to be sure that it will not uninstall my Windows partition. In fact, I want to have something like this when i turn on my computer:
1.Windows 98
2.DamnSmallLinux
How can i do for it

Yes.

The safest and easiest way is to:
METHOD 1
1. Download the DSL 0.7.1.iso
2. Use a program called ISOBUSTER to extract the KNOPPIX dir from the iso
3. Put the KNOPPIX dir on your c:\ (network or however you want to get it there
4. Create a boot floppy by using rawwritewin to make you a boot floppy from the boot.img thats inside the KNOPPIX directory
5. Boot using the boot floppy...this way you have a dual boot system without having to install lilo or whatnot and its not using that much space.
6. TO UNINSTALL-Just delete the KNOPPIX dir from c:\ (very very simple)

Or...................................
METHOD 2
1. Resize your windows parition to leave approx 250 meg at the end of your c:\ by using a cd called Ultimate Boot CD which has numerous "freeware" utilities to resize a fat 32 partition
2. Do a HD install of DSL
3. If you dont want to dual boot and want to resize your windows partition to take up whole HD again then use Ultimate Boot CD to erase the Linux parition, then use a win98 boot floppy and "fdisk /mbr" to get rid of lilo.

Hope this helps

I prefer method 1, well if you have over 32 megs of ram

Brian
AwPhuch

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