[lug] stupid MSDN Q

[D. Stimits]

John Karns wrote:
> 
> I don't have direct experience with this, although I do have a set of MSDN
> CD's lying around, I think they use a format they refer to as "compiled
> html" (.chm extension, if I remember).  Anyway, I would suggest trying the
> following:
> 
> - make a copy of the boot partition via dd onto floppy
> 
> - backup the Linux partition(s)
> 
> - delete the linux partitions via Linux fdisk
> 
> - install W98 to the available partition
> 
> - restore boot partition from floppy via dd
> 
> I believe that the content of the deleted Linux partitions should remain
> intact during the process, provided you don't change the size of the W98
> partition to allow over-writing the Linux partition space.
> 
> If you try this, I'd be interested in hearing how it works.

What I'm afraid of is that when win "fixes" the partition it will in
fact change the boundaries, not just boot records. Win has a way of
intentionally trying to get rid of non-windows, at least on older win
(and this is an old 98 disk).

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> P.S. FYI, ignoring the i840 compatibility problem that you mention for the
> sake of discussion, VMWare is offering a version called VMWare Express
> which they are selling for $49, so the price issue has changed.

Even with apic disabled, the i840 will not run vmware at all.

> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net
> 
> On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, D. Stimits said:
> 
> > I'm trying to read an MSDN CD while working on porting some software. My
> > 2nd machine has the first partition open so I can install Win 98 on
> > that, but it is telling me I have to delete all the non-win partitions
> > (or so it seems to be saying...it won't actually tell me *which*
> > partition it has to delete) before it'll even attempt to install win.
> > This makes me fear partition delete, since it won't tell which
> > partition. This in turn means I can't install 98 on that machine, and
> > therefore, I have no chance of making my MSDN CD available while I'm
> > working (I'd have to reboot to win to read a page, then reboot back to
> > linux to code, reboot back to win to see MSDN, reboot again, so on, so
> > forth, yuck, argh, moan, groan). I want to know if anyone has heard of a
> > way to read MSDN (MS's equivalent to man pages) while in Linux? Has
> > anyone heard of such a project, or would I simply have to reverse
> > engineer this myself if I want to read MSDN pages from Linux? (I don't
> > have vmware, can't afford it, don't want it, it has problems running on
> > i840 SMP chipset motherboards)
> 
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