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Old November 15th, 2001, 12:04 AM
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Reinstalling Win98 on Dual booting box
I have a box with redhat and Win98 installed. Windows is acting more buggy than normal and I want to reinstall but I have heard that you cannot because windows will overwrite the boot sector and then i cannot boot to Linux. Is there a way to get around this problem?

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If you have or create a bootble floppy/cd so that you can boot into Linux, you can install Win98 and let it write to the MBR. Then use the Linux floppy/cd to boot Linux and reinstall LILO so that it overwrites the MBR.

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Or you can use some other boot manager to choose between Win98 and Linux when you boot your pc.

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Check out the Acronis boot manager. Their demo is functional enough for most stituations. Although Grub is extremely nice and comes with RHL 7.2.
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