stuck in linux. help!

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Rick Barr

I really hope that you can help me with this problem I am
having. It seems to be a very unique problem judging by
the fact that I have been unable to find any relative help
anywhere on the internet. I was running WinXP Pro when I
got it in my head to delete all partitions and reformat in
Ext3 and install Mandrake Linux 9.1 . Now, this would
normally have been all well and fine except for the fact
that I have been dealing with alot of problems under linux
that I am not able to resolve. I really, no REALLY, want to
switch back to WinXP. The problem is that I do not have
bios that supports cdrom booting and the bootdisk that I
have will not allow me to access the cdrom. I am stuck in
linux. I have downloaded vmware, wine, and Win4Lin but
none of them have solved the problem of being able to
create a bootdisk under linux. Mandrake, and I
believe most linux distros now a days include some sort
of rawrite proggie to make a linux boot disk but I have not
been able to find a similar tool for the reverse situation.
If you can think of some sort of work around for this
problem I would be very appreciative if you would share it
with me. As I said, I have been all over the web looking
for an answer.
I also have Win98SE WinME and Win2000 Advanced
Server discs. Somewhat of an OS collector. Rather
embarassing to be in this situation.
also, I do not have acces to another computer so this will
have to be accomplished within linux.
Thank you in advance,

Rick Barr
(e-mail address removed)


.....if you wanna live life on your own terms,
ya gotta be willing to crash and burn...
Motley Crue - Primal Scream
 
My suggestion would be to get your hands on a Win98 boot floppy. Boot the
computer with that, select With CD Support. When it gets to a dos prompt,
insert the XP cd. Switch to the CD and type winnt.exe, Enter.
The installation should take it from there.

Rich
 
Rick said:
I really hope that you can help me with this problem I am
having. It seems to be a very unique problem judging by
the fact that I have been unable to find any relative help
anywhere on the internet. I was running WinXP Pro when I
got it in my head to delete all partitions and reformat in
Ext3 and install Mandrake Linux 9.1 . Now, this would
normally have been all well and fine except for the fact
that I have been dealing with alot of problems under linux
that I am not able to resolve. I really, no REALLY, want to
switch back to WinXP. The problem is that I do not have
bios that supports cdrom booting and the bootdisk that I
have will not allow me to access the cdrom. I am stuck in
linux. I have downloaded vmware, wine, and Win4Lin but
none of them have solved the problem of being able to
create a bootdisk under linux. Mandrake, and I
believe most linux distros now a days include some sort
of rawrite proggie to make a linux boot disk but I have not
been able to find a similar tool for the reverse situation.
If you can think of some sort of work around for this
problem I would be very appreciative if you would share it
with me. As I said, I have been all over the web looking
for an answer.
I also have Win98SE WinME and Win2000 Advanced
Server discs. Somewhat of an OS collector. Rather
embarassing to be in this situation.
also, I do not have acces to another computer so this will
have to be accomplished within linux.
Thank you in advance,

Rick Barr
(e-mail address removed)


....if you wanna live life on your own terms,
ya gotta be willing to crash and burn...
Motley Crue - Primal Scream
Click to expand...

Use a Win 98 /Me boot disk to boot the computer and type fdisk /mbr
If you don't have a Windows 98/Me boot disk, you can obtain many different
versions from:
http://www.bootdisk.com
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