Perhaps using a boot manager so that the ext3 partition is hidden to Windows 98 ... however it seems strange to me that Windows 98 would run scandisk on a partition it can't even manage ... are you sure the issue is really related ?
Because I have an ext3-formatted partition on my hard drive, windows 98 installation initiates Scandisk. This would be fine, only that my hard drive is from a modern computer and 92GB. As you can imagine, this would take a day or more with Scandisk's speed.
Is there any way to disable this?
Perhaps using a boot manager so that the ext3 partition is hidden to Windows 98 ... however it seems strange to me that Windows 98 would run scandisk on a partition it can't even manage ... are you sure the issue is really related ?
Do you know of any boot managers that can do this? All I'm familiar with is GRUB.
I'm not sure if it's related, but in qemu, it doesnt use scandisk.
You can give a try to XOSL, I installed it at my work and it works just fine.
I'd recommend installing it on a dedicated FreeDOS partition (you won't need more than a few megs)
I attempted to install FreeDOS, and it installed onto the FAT32 partion quite well, but when I booted to it, it gave an error message that said
And thus, I could not install XOSL.Code:bad or missing command interpreter. enter the full shell command line.
Any other ideas?
Well, was command.com present on your partition ?
sadly, i'm not sure. I gave up too early, and just switched to virtualbox.
MUCH better than qemu...I would definitely recommend it to you- it's cross-platform and open-source.
It seems like we're the only ones using this forum, doesn't it?
Last edited by tsudrummer24; 09-01-2008 at 08:06 AM.
Yep, looks like there aren't many people around lately ^^'
However I don't really see the point between those virtualisation solutions and boot managers (?)
I don't understand your (question).
You mean you don't understand my desire for windows 98? Or you don't see vm programs a viable solutions, or vice versa?
I just thought you believed you could actually make a real dual boot using a virtual machine ^^'