[NBLUG/talk] Man I hate Windoze

[ME]

Steve said:
> Well, I decided to put the second hard drive into my
> system and install win2k on it..  So I get the drive all in stalled, had
> to put it on the secondary controller because the cdrom and th primary
> hard drive were on the primary controller =), so I put in
> my Win2K CD, start the install.. Win2K does all its 'who knows what'
> crap and takes forever before it gets to the point where I select a disk
> to do the install.
>
> So I cursor down to the new unformatted/unpartitioned drive and select it.
>  Next screen... Windows pops up with a message saying its just
> fine and dandy about installing its self on that drive.. But it
> will require space on the primary drive for the installation.  The
> it complains that non of the formats on the primary drive are compatible
> with win2k and that I should delete them and re-create them in a win2k
> compatible format.
>
> WTF! Win2K is all happy with what I wanna do as long as I destroy my Linux
> partitions in the process.. Man Microsloth are bastards ain't they??
>
> Well.. I rebooted, made some changes to my grub.conf file, made a change
> to my /etc/sftab in regards to where Linux can find my swap partition..
> Shut down the box, move my old drive to the secondary IDE controller..
> Then moved the new drive to the primary IDE controller.. rebooted with the
> Win2K CD in the drive..  Win2K installed just fine that way =) but of
> course no more grub on the boot sector =)
>
> Simple fix, rebooted onto my RH8.0 CD, typed 'Linux rescue' at the
> prompt.. got up and running in rescue mode.. re-ran grub-install /dev/hd0,
> oh and while I was at it, added the win2k entry to my grub.conf (forgot to
> do that before) and then Boooya!!! we have grub/linux/win2k happiness.
>
> All is working =) And as soon as I don't need this Win2K
> crap anymore.. I'm gonna mkfs.ext3 that drive and have a nice 60gig file
> server ha ha!
>
> Anyways just wanted to share this with you all.
>
> -Steve

Hey Steve,

Responses like this are excellent! When people look for solutions to
problems, they may have problems like the ones you entered, and your
message becomes a part of a knowledge-base.

Very nice!

Thanks!
-ME