On 12/27/05, Tim Oudin <timo at bolverk.net> wrote: > John Meier wrote: > > On 12/27/05, *Steve Linabery* <slinabery at worldcycling.com > > 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 You'll have to make some grub changes and I'm not fluent in grub. You should just be able to make the needed changes to your grub config then install grub on the MBR of xp_disk. Not sure if you can do that from the rescue mode of the FC4 disks, I'm not an FC4 guru. > I've done a similar procedure (I wouldn't call it an upgrade!) before. > I had a similar setup many years ago, copied the linux boot loader info, > rewrote boot.ini and used the windows boot loader to boot into linux. I've done that before but ran into an issue. When you boot linux from the XP loader, you can't mount xp_disk in linux. This was a minor issue, but it did cause me some problems when I was trying to move data back and forth. Also, when intermixing NT/2K/XP and linux, I like to carve out a nice size (5-10 GB) FAT32 partition as "neutral" space for moving files around. Go ahead and install XP on NTFS, you really should. Since XP can't see the linux partition and linux can't write to NTFS safely, having a FAT32 partition to move files back and forth on is a huge help. -Brian