On Saturday 17 April 2004 15:33, you wrote:
> Vaughn Treude wrote:
> >On Friday 16 April 2004 13:16, you wrote:
> >>On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 09:48, Earl, Alex C wrote:
> >>>Install XPde (http://www.xpde.com/shots.php) desktop environment and
> >>>tell her its WindowsXP...
> >>>
> >>>...but seriously, what are her reasons for wanting WindowsXP?
> >>>
> >>>Did you create a partition for WindowsXP? I don't know if this is true
> >>>with XP, but on other versions of Windows, it had to be installed on the
> >>>first partition (this could screw you over if Linux is already installed
> >>>there).
> >>>
> >>>You could always check Google for "install windows xp linux system" or
> >>>something along those lines.
> >>>
> >>>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>>From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> >>>
> >>>[mailto:plug-discuss-
> >>>
> >>>>admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Roy Babin
> >>>>Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 9:41 AM
> >>>>To: PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> >>>>Subject: Install WinXP
> >>>>
> >>>>I have Suse8.2 installed, now the wife would like to have Windows HP
> >>>>installed also. When I try to install I get the following message.
> >>>>
> >>>>"The hard drive does not contain a FAT16 or Fat32 Windows partition."
> >>>> This may be caused by any of the following reasons.
> >>>> 1 You are using an NTFS (Windows) file system.
> >>>> 2 you are using an HPFS (OS/2) file system
> >>>> 3 The last partition on your drive was NTFS or an HPFS Partition.
> >>>>
> >>>>What may I do to correct the situation and keep the wife happy?
> >>>>Thank you for any help one mught be.
> >>
> >>----
> >>It's much easier to install Windows first and then install Linux
> >>afterwards - primarily because of the bootloader issues.
> >>
> >>Anyway - First thing to do is to make sure you have an emergency boot
> >>floppy because Windows install will undoubtedly over write your mbr.
> >>
> >>Windows NT/2K/XP can be installed on any partition, it need not be the
> >>first partition. You need to have an unpartitioned space or a
> >>partitioned space with Fat32 (known as vfat to linux) or NTFS filesystem
> >>in order to install Windows.
> >>
> >>After the install, it will probably only boot Windows and that's where
> >>the emergency boot disk will allow you to boot into Linux and fix grub
> >>(grub-install /dev/hda) - where you will have to configure it to boot
> >>grub's bootloader and allow you to choose continuation into Linux or
> >>Windows.
> >>
> >>Craig
> >
> >Also, if you have a Knoppix disk that's an excellent way to fix a messed
> > up boot configuration. Just boot into Knoppix, do an "su" to root (it
> > doesn't need a password) and run lilo or grub as you choose. Then log
> > off of Knoppix and reset your system. I had to do this on my main system
> > after installing Lindows in one of the partitions. For some reason
> > Lindows updates the bootloader, even with a normal shutdown. (I assume
> > it's trying to fix possible problems caused by coexistance with Windows.
> > As a result it doesn't coexist very well with other variants of Linux.)
> >
> >Vaughn
> >
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> I have tried everyones suggestions, even deleted Suse, had to
> reinstall to get back on here.
> Nothing worked, however I did get another error msg. : INF file
> txt.setup.sif is corrupt or missing, status 4096. :
> Does that by chance mean I have a corrupt CD?
> ( Vaughn......Are you married? If so you understand why I have to get
> Windows on computer. :-[
>
Yes, and I do understand, though I wasn't the one questioning your need to
use XP. :-) My own poor wife has been stuck on Win 98 for years because I
refused to upgrade it. It was actually no problem, until she started taking
an online course, and the school makes you promise you'll have minimal
versions of MS software. (Win 98 was good enough, but Office 95 was not.)
The school has MS upgrades for cheap but I think that the Office upgrade they
have forces you to go to Win XP. (The earlier version - was it 2000? 2002?
will still work on Win 98.) Anyway, we got through the first course without
any upgrades; she was able to do a lot with Open Office, though she had to
use her computer at work to make sure that the docs she modified with OO were
still readable in MS Office. And occasionally there were files that would
make OO crash. :-(
Anyway, if I understand you correctly, you're encountering this error when
attempting to install XP, even you've cleaned off the drive? Of course,
Windows can be fussy about pre-existing installs and its version of fdisk is
exceedingly stupid. My inclination would be to get a second hard drive, and
put Linux on that, but as I haven't been reading this thread very faithfully,
I don't recall if the machine in question was a notebook or not.
Vaughn
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