-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: John Meier <john.meier at gmail.com> > On 12/27/05, Steve Linabery <slinabery at worldcycling.com> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Sorry in advance if this is common knowledge or in an archive...I'm being > > lazy. > > > > The time has finally come for me to retire Win98se for my gaming platform > > at home. > > > > On my home computer, I have Win98se on win_disk, FC4 on lin_disk. Grub > > handles booting with MBR on win_disk. > > > > What I figured I would do is: > > -1) buy winXP "pro" > > 0) boot linux > > 1) mount win_disk as VFAT and tar the entire disk onto lin_disk (for > > eventually restoring saved games & other data to the new windows) > > 2) physically disconnect both drives, install new higher capacity disk > > (let's call it xp_disk!), install xp to new disk > > 3) reconnect disk lin_disk > > 4) boot from FC4 install CDs and see what happens > > > > I would think you could just buy an xp upgrade and upgrade 98. Windows > won't see the linux stuff, but it may srcew with the MBR - in which case you > could just repair/reintall grub (maybe from FC install discs? I have no > experiecne with fc4 though...) > As a Windows "jockey" I have to say that you do NOT want to buy an "upgrade" version of Windows XP. If you want to retain Windows, then do yourself a favor and buy Windows XP Professional (last I checked it was $149 with any hardware purchase at General Nanosys). Also, you will want to run WinXP on an NTFS partition, not FAT32. Everything I've seen has said install Windows first and then install Linux. Personally, I would install Windows on the entire disk, defragment, then use BootIt Next Generation to shrink down the Windows partition to the size you want. Then install Linux on the remaining disk space. If you keep your "/home" directory and install Linux exactly the same as you had it, it should work/look the same as before. Just my $0.02. Todd Young -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: John Meier <john.meier at gmail.com> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] windows 'upgrade' Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 01:26:21 +0000 Size: 3680 Url: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20051228/4158e4f0/attachment-0001.eml