<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/27/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Linabery</b> <<a href="mailto:slinabery@worldcycling.com">slinabery@worldcycling.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br><br>Sorry in advance if this is common knowledge or in an archive...I'm being lazy.<br><br>The time has finally come for me to retire Win98se for my gaming platform at home.<br><br>On my home computer, I have Win98se on win_disk, FC4 on lin_disk. Grub handles booting with MBR on win_disk.
<br><br>What I figured I would do is:<br>-1) buy winXP "pro"<br>0) boot linux<br>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)
<br>2) physically disconnect both drives, install new higher capacity disk (let's call it xp_disk!), install xp to new disk<br>3) reconnect disk lin_disk<br>4) boot from FC4 install CDs and see what happens</blockquote><div>
<br><br>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...)
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