Ross L. Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 Well I just found out that my best friend's router won't work with Linux and both him and I are really mad. He wants to know how to reinstall Windows 98SE on his pc, which he will then upgrade to XP Home. I know this probably isn't the right place for this but I was unsure where it would go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 first of all: are you sure that the router is incompatible? almost every router i know works with linux. okay.. what you need is a bootdisk for windows 98 or n old dos disk. boot the system with the floppy and run from it fdisk. remove all partitions you can find. then create the dos partitons. after that reboot and format the drive using the floppy. then boot with the floppy and start the installation process. the masterbootrecord will be overwritten during that process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 Either go into rescue mode of manfriva's cd1 and restore the windows bootloader or boot a win98 rescue disk and do fdisk /restore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross L. Posted August 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 We are pretty sure that it's not compatible. It's a Linksys 2.4GHz Wireless router, and his pc has something similar to a wireless bridge hooked up to it, which is connected by a ethernet cable to the Linksys Fast Connect Ethernet Card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Is it the wireless cards that you are having an issue with? Try searching the Tips and Tricks and FAQ forums for a howto on ndiswrapper. It's worked for a lot of people. But the above references are correct for removing Mandrake and returning to a Windows environment. On a side note, your friend might be better off just installing XP Home than upgrading from 98 to XP Home. IIRC you can install from an upgrade cd as long as you have an older version of Windows for the installer to pull some files off of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Cards might have issues, not routers. Routers work with tcp/ip. Anything utilizing tcp/ic works. Now, your cards might need some configuration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Either go into rescue mode of manfriva's cd1 and restore the windows bootloader or boot a win98 rescue disk and dofdisk /restore <{POST_SNAPBACK}> no one caught that? it should be; fdisk /mbr :woops: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Hey, man. We don't want it to actually work!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Hey, man. We don't want it to actually work!! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> dan, you are indeed. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mada726 Posted October 10, 2005 Report Share Posted October 10, 2005 (edited) Either go into rescue mode of manfriva's cd1 and restore the windows bootloader or boot a win98 rescue disk and dofdisk /restore <{POST_SNAPBACK}> no one caught that? it should be; fdisk /mbr :woops: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I used to pilot project the Mandriva 10.1 operating system on my computer couple months ago, but I hardly used the OS. Is the fdisk /mbr command is safe? Also, do i need to backup my Windoze XP data before doing the fdisk process? Edited October 10, 2005 by mada726 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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