On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 22:10 -0400, James Walker wrote: > Would this work? > > Boot using a FC3 (or FC4?) rescue CD. Make sure /dev/hda is unmounted, > then resize my filesystem to 32 gigabytes: > #resize2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogicalVol00 32G > > Reduce the size of the logical volume by 5 gigabytes to 32 gigabytes: > #lvreduce -L-5G /dev/VolGroup00/LogicalVol00 > > Create a new 5000 MB linear logical volume named Win98 in VolGroup00: > #lvcreate -L5000 -nWin98 VolGroup00 > > Check for errors and format the newly created volume: > #mkdosfs -c /dev/VolGroup00/Win98 > > Edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf file to include a section to boot the > Windows partition or the installation CD. The mapping supposedly > prevents Windows from killing Linux: > title Windows 98 > map (hd0,0) (hd0,2) > map (hd0,2) (hd0,0) > rootnoverify (hd0,2) > > title Windows 98 CD > map (hd0,0) (hd0,2) > map (hd0,2) (hd0,0) > chainloader (hdc)+1 > > Reboot the computer, select the Windows 98 CD option from the GRUB > bootloader, insert the CD and install Windows 98. Reboot again and > select Windows 98 from GRUB. > > That's the theory. It would probably work easily if my FAT32 partition > was on hda3, but getting it out of the free space in the Volume Group > would be twice as difficult (from my limited understanding). I am also > not sure if GRUB will boot something in a Volume Group. Furthermore, I > am not sure if Windows will like the fact that it's in a Volume Group. Windows 98 doesn't have the faintest idea what a volume group is, let alone how to use one. The best suggestion, as mentioned earlier, is to reinstall the PC, Win98 first and then Linux. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
