[font size=1" color="#FF0000]LAST EDITED ON Mar-10-01 AT 10:39PM (GMT)[p]>Currently I'm running Win98. As my
>computer hasn't been running too
>well lately for various reasons,
>I'm thinking that I should
>format the whole drive and
>install 2000. However, I'm also
>running Linux on another partition
>of the drive, but there
>is no boot manager at
>the moment so to start
>Linux I use a boot
>disk.
>Will installing Win2k interfere in any
>way with Linux?
Well if you've got it so you're using a boot disk, I don't think it will affect it. I would backup what is important however just in case. Just download one of those GNU CD burning programs (if you have a CD-R) and backup the files you need.
Oh yeah, unless it would be a royal pain, I'd back up all your data/important files from your C drive and format it before installing Win2k.
Then when the drive is formatted, take a boot disk with a copy of Smartdrv.exe on it (get it out of an old DOS directory or off your Win98/Win95 CD) and run it using these command line parameters before running the WinNT program in the i386 directory (the Win2k DOS installer):
SMARTDRV 4096 /B:4096
or just:
SMARTDRV 4096
Then you're ready to do the DOS installation on a clean drive.
Ah yes, finally, you can bypass entering in your Serial Number by going into your i386 directory of the installation CD (provided you copied it to your hard drive, which I would suggest), and opening up the file SETUPP.INI
You will see something like:
[Pid]
ExtraData=6E797875766D79686E691614846D8A
Pid=51873000
Just edit the last three digits of the Pid string and change them to 270:
Pid=51873270
Now you don't have to enter in your serial number.
-Xotor-
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