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...) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20051227/0490ee82/attachment.htm