On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 03:40:41PM -0600, Steve Linabery wrote:
> 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'm wondering if step 4 will "work". Like, will anaconda recognize
> that I have an existing linux installation and just install grub for
> me so I can have a happy dual-OS system again?
Boot FC4 into rescue mode, mount your FC4 partition, and run
grub-install. Nothing to it. I've wiped out my MBR of a fully
functional Linux environment with fdisk /mbr and recovered it this way.
This would work if you didn't wipe out the Linux partitions. However,
you are wiping them out. You may want to look at something like Mondo
Rescue to create ISOs of your original Linux system and recover them
that way. There's really no reason you need to re-install FC4 again.
.../Ed
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