Wow! Thank you all very much for your help.

There are 2 things that make me leery about doing this reinstall process. First when I do boot into win98, win98 doesn't recognize my linux partitions at all. They don't show up in the file manager. Second I wiped out my entire linux os once by running Norton Antivirus on the win98 side. Norton told me that there was a potential virus in my mbr and asked if I wanted it restored. I said yes. Later when I tried booting into knoppix, I discovered that everything was gone. Root partition, swap partition, everything. So I learned the hard way that altering the mbr can destroy the linux partitions.

Thanks again

Nick