On 5/16/07, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:47:50PM -0500, Steve Linabery wrote: > > I use linux (planetccrma on fc5) for digital audio recording and WinXP for playing WoW. > > > > My linux machine died recently. I would like to install fc5 on my WinXP machine. > > > > I want to add a new hard drive in the WinXP machine and install linux on that disk. > > > > Is this type of installation as simple as booting from the fc5 installation CD, or do I need to do something fancy? The last time I tried to install linux on my WinXP box, I made my WinXP OS unbootable. > > If that last time was more than 2-3 years ago, then don't worry about > it. > But booting from a LiveCD and backing up your partition table and master boot record would be prudent insurance: dd if=/dev/hda of=/wherever/you/want/it count=1 bs=512 Then: scp /wherever/you/want/it you at otherbox.com:/path/to/destination would get it off of the box (That's from memory... you should double check the syntax.) Thomas